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Amoeblog Archive - 2009-08 ArchiveI no longer live, but was raised in, a Yellow Submarine.<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have seen the movie <em><strong>Yellow Submarine</strong></em> more than any other film. This is because, as a child, I had a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax">BETA</a> copy of the film that had been taped off our TV. Without exaggeration, I&rsquo;ve seen the movie over 200 times. Unfortunately, my taped copy also contained the commercials that played on TV when they showed it, which means I have also seen this&hellip;<br />
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&hellip;over 200 times. (If I, in the future, ever do anything absolutely crazy that lands me in trouble with the law, please remember this fact and use it in my defense.)<br />
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It&rsquo;s also because of this movie that I was acutely aware of who <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/beatles-2009/page1.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Beatles</strong></a> were. While most of my 1st grade friends were learning the hard way that Strawberry Shortcake dolls do not taste as good as they smell, I was phoning local radio stations and pleading with them to play songs off of <em>Sgt. Pepper&rsquo;s Lonely Hearts Club Band</em>.<br />
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I was six when <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/john-lennon/page1.html"><strong>John Lennon</strong></a> was shot, and remember the moment when I found out. I was channel surfing (back then it was &ldquo;switching the dial&rdquo;) when I happened upon the news. I heard that Lennon was dead and starting sobbing. It was all so confusing. My primary association with him was as a cartoon character, and on some level I didn&rsquo;t understand how that piece of animation had been murdered. It was all so complicated and awful. And probably why I genuinely feared for Scooby&rsquo;s well-being from then on.<br />
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:49:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/i-no-longer-live-but-was-raised-in-a-yellow-submarine-.htmlNew 12" Electronic Releases at Amoeba Hollywood - 09/04/09<div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/GetAttachment-2-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8.aspx.jpeg" /><br />
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<u><strong>New Electro/Techno 12&quot;s Coming This Weekend:</strong></u><br />
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This must-see on the live techno circuit in Holland makes his debut on 2020 VISION, with a LAUHAUS remix on the flip. Also includes the song &quot;JOEL STARR.&quot; This should be big, following his <em>TOKENS</em> album released this year on key Dutch label REMOTE AREA.<br />
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EROL ALKAN &amp; BOYS NOIZE team up for these two tracks, &amp; deliver an electro disco storm alongside an abstract, cut 'n paste techno/acid rollercoaster. First designed to be battle weapons, but the response was so huge they decided to release them!</span>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<br />
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Bliss&nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">NO ONE BUILT THIS MOMENT</span></em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> #1 12&quot; ZZZUS120037A </span></div>
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<strong>Dusty&nbsp;</strong><em>AN EXOTIC BREED</em> 12&quot; JM009 </span></div>
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<strong>Flashtraxx&nbsp;</strong><em>JACK OF ALL TRADE</em> 12&quot; BFP016 </span></div>
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<strong>Pitch &amp; Scratch</strong><em><strong>&nbsp;</strong>HAMBURG HUSTLE </em>LP+CD LEGO015LP </span></div>
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<strong>Rebel Crew&nbsp;</strong><em>LAST TANGO IN TEXAS EP</em> 12&quot; STRX004 </span></div>
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Various&nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">JAZZ &amp; MILK BREAKS 3 </span></em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">12&quot; EP JM0010&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div>
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Delphic&nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">THIS MOMENTARY </span></em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">12&quot; KITSUNE101 </span></div>
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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:58:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/new-12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-09-04-09.htmlThe situation in Ngulu Mapu intensifiesAlthough it&#39;s received little-to-no coverage in most mainstream media, clashes between <strong>Mapuche</strong> activists and the <strong>Chilean</strong> government have intensified as of late. Two days ago, thousands of Mapuche and other Chileans gathered around the country to protest plans for damming many of the country&#39;s rivers. This was only the latest round in a growing protest movement over land rights issues in <strong>Ngulu Mapu</strong>, the Mapuche homeland.<br />
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Just two weeks ago, a young Mapuche, <strong>Jaime Mendoza Collío</strong>, was shot in the back and killed by a Chilean police officer. The police were attempting to evict a group of about eighty Mapuche who were occuypying the San Sebastián farm. Following Collío&#39;s death, many Mapuche took to the streets of Temuco demanding direct talks with the Chilean president, <strong>Michelle Bachelet.</strong> The killing of Collío was only the latest death of a Mapuche at the hands of Chilean police. On January 3, 2008, 22-year-old Mapuche student <strong>Matias Catrileo</strong> was shot and killed by police. 17-year-old <strong>Alex Lemun</strong> was similarly shot and killed in November of 2002.<br />
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The Mapuche, whose claims to Ngulu Mapu stem from thousands of years of continuous presence, routinely clash with the Chilean governments as it sells off more and more of the Mapuche homelands to foreign mining companies which wreak considerable environmental destruction whilst reaping considerable profits. Meanwhile, large timber firms (most state-owned) continue to deforest the countryside. Most of the timber ends up in the US, at an annual profit of about $600 million. After the forests are destroyed, the timber firms replant the area with thirsty, non-native trees like eucalyptus. Those who speak out against what they call environmental racism are frequently arrested under the banner of counter-terrorism. The government regularly applies laws enacted during the <strong>Pinochet</strong> dictatorship to imprison activists, especially those belonging to Mapuche organizations like <strong>Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco</strong> (CAM).<br />
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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:16:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/the-situation-in-ngulu-mapu-intensifies.htmlFESTIVAL EXPRESS FREE SCREENING AT AMOEBA'S MONDAY MOVIES<div style="text-align: center;">
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Last week kicked off the highly recommended free <strong>Amoeba's Monday Movies</strong><em><strong> </strong></em>series in Hollywood, CA at <a href="http://www.space15twenty.com/"><strong>Space15twenty</strong></a> with a screening of the Hurricane Katrina themed film <em><strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/trouble-the-water-filmmakers-carl-deal-tia-lessin-interview-.html" target="_blank">Trouble the Water</a> --</strong></em> a <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/200px-Festival_express-1-1.png" alt="Festival Express" style="border: 8px solid white;" />wonderfully produced documentary, albeit with an unsettling subject matter<em><strong>. </strong></em>In contrast, tonight's screening of the fun, must-see music documentary <em><strong>Festival Express</strong></em>, which captures a magical slice of time and rock history from almost forty years ago, is much lighter in its content. <br />
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The film was shot in the summer of 1970 over a period of five days on a cool custom made train with some very talented passengers on board, including <strong>Janis Joplin, The Band,</strong> the <strong>Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy</strong>, and <strong>Sha Na Na</strong>. The train trekked its way across Canada from Toronto, to Calgary and to Winnipeg, with its crew stopping to perform concerts along the route. <br />
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What makes this film so unique and so endearing is just how candid everyone comes across in their intimate portrayals. I love this film and was so moved when I&nbsp;first saw it six months ago, especially by Janis Joplin's role. Her great performances&nbsp; tragically would be some of her very last, since she died within a few months of this trans Canadian tour. I&nbsp;wrote an <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/03/jamoeblog/janis-joplin-died-way-too-young.html">Amoeblog about <em>Festival Express</em> and Joplin </a>back when I first watched the film. <br />
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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:04:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/festival-express-free-screening-at-amoeba-s-monday-movies.htmlAmoeba Hollywood World Music Charts For August<div style="text-align: center;"><img width="200" height="287" align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Gomez/amd_lila.jpg" /><u><strong>Amoeba Hollywood World Music Top Ten <br />
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1. <strong>V/A</strong>-<em>Sound Of Wonder!</em><br />
2. <strong>Chico Sonido</strong>-<em>S/T</em><br />
3. <strong>V/A</strong>- <em>Black Rio Vol. 2</em><br />
4. <strong>Bebe</strong>-<em>Y.</em><br />
5. <strong>Lila Downs</strong>-<em>La Cantina</em><br />
6. <strong>Natalia Lafourcade</strong>-<em>Hu Hu Hu</em><br />
7. <strong>Los Amigos Invisible</strong>-<em>Commercial</em><br />
8.<strong> Merche</strong>-<em>Cal Y Arena</em><br />
9. <strong>V/A</strong>-<em>Panama Vol.2</em><br />
10. <strong>Serge Gainsbourg</strong>- <em>Initials SG-Best Of Serge Gainsbourg<br />
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The <em>Sound of Wonder </em>compilation just edged out <strong>Chico Sonido</strong>&rsquo;s self-titled release to take the top spot of the week. At number five was <a href="http://www.liladowns.com">Lila Downs</a>&rsquo; <em>La Cantina</em>, a release that dates back to 2006. Why, you ask? Perhaps because Lila landed in the hospital last week with a case of appendicitis and had to cancel all her shows in California, including a free show at The Santa Monica Pier last Thursday. I&rsquo;m guessing that people came to Amoeba to get their Lila fix. To Lila, we wish a speedy recovery and we look forward to her next show at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 24th for the <a href="http://www.ladayofthedead.com/index.html">Dia De Los Muertos Festival<img width="250" height="249" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Gomez/huhuhu.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" /></a>. <br />
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At number six is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/natalialafourcade">Natalia Lafourcade</a>'s latest, <em>Hu Hu Hu</em>. Released in Mexico in May (and yes, of course, not domestically) this is Natalia&rsquo;s best release to date. Her songwriting has matured yet still retaines that youthful edge, especially lyrically. Much like <strong>Juan Son</strong>&rsquo;s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/los-angeles-me/amoeba-hollywood-latin-rock-pop-top-10-for-august-2009-.html"><em>Mermaid Sashimi,</em></a> Natalia&rsquo;s release also reveals that she is a recent graduate of The <strong>Brian Wilson</strong> School of Songwriting, sans Juan Son&rsquo;s flair for the dramatic. Despite obvious influences, Natalia still marches to the beat of her own drum. I can see a whole new generation of Latin American singer/songwriters using <em>Hu Hu Hu</em> as a template for their future work, much like they did with her past releases.<br />
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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/los-angeles-me/amoeba-hollywood-world-music-charts-for-august.htmlAugust 30, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Goods movie ticket stub AMC Burbank 8" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/thegoodsticket.jpg" /><br />
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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:25:36 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-30-2009.html America Gets a Post-Racial: The Legacy of Lee AtwaterThe latest issue of <em>The London Review of Books</em> has an excellent essay, &quot;<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n16/mich02_.html" target="_blank">What Matters</a>,&quot; by <strong>Walter Benn Michaels</strong> (author of <em>The Trouble with Diversity</em>). In analyzing the recent arrest of Harvard professor <strong>Henry Louis Gates</strong>, Michaels answers my fellow blogger Eric's question of &quot;<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/02/eric-s-blog/who-s-black-and-whose-black-.html" target="_blank">who's black?</a>&quot; with another, more telling question: &quot;who's poor?.&quot; To wit:<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Gates, as one of his Harvard colleagues said, is &lsquo;a famous, wealthy and important black man&rsquo;, a point Gates himself tried to make to the arresting officer &ndash; the way he put it was: &lsquo;You don&rsquo;t know who you&rsquo;re messing with.&rsquo; But, despite the helpful hint, the cop failed to recognise an essential truth about neoliberal America: it&rsquo;s no longer enough to kowtow to rich white people; now you have to kowtow to rich black people too.<br />
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In the US, one of the great uses of racism was (and is) to induce poor white people to feel a crucial and entirely specious fellowship with rich white people; one of the great uses of anti-racism is to make poor black people feel a crucial and equally specious fellowship with rich black people. Furthermore, in the form of the celebration of &lsquo;identity&rsquo; and &lsquo;ethnic diversity&rsquo;, it seeks to create a bond between poor black people and rich white ones. So the African-American woman who cleans my office is supposed to feel not so bad about the fact that I make almost ten times as much money as she does because she can be confident that I&rsquo;m not racist or sexist and that I respect her culture. And she&rsquo;s also supposed to feel pride because the dean of our college, who makes much more than ten times what she does, is African-American, like her. And since the chancellor of our university, who makes more than 15 times what she does, is not only African-American but a woman too (the fruits of both anti-racism and anti-sexism!), she can feel doubly good about her.</div>
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In the words of our first &quot;post-racial&quot; president's speechwriters, it's the economy, stupid (or, rather, the racially stupid economy -- even its staunchest proponents this side of <strong>Ayn Rand</strong> will tell you that capitalism is amoral). As the harbinger of racial peace through commercial success, a prescient <strong>Arsenio Hall</strong> managed to signify our current climate through one particular performance that bridged the old racial divide in popular culture, that of the poor black's blues and the poor white's country:<br />
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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:03:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/-america-gets-a-post-racial-the-legacy-of-lee-atwater.htmlSolid Gold! Interview with David LynchMy pal Kyle and I had a chance to interview the best living director. Here 'tis:<br />
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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:18:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/solid-gold-interview-with-david-lynch.htmlOne Last Thing About August ...<div><img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/ct11.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><br />
Now that <strong>August</strong> is basically over, here is my last chance to mention that it&rsquo;s been <strong>National Catfish Month</strong> across this great, chowing-down, eater&rsquo;s paradise of ours. Back in the late 1980s, the month of August was officially designated by mysterious entities as National Catfish Month. Today, seafood consumption in the United States exceeds 4.9 billion pounds annually and more catfish is now produced on a yearly basis in the United States than all other farmed fish combined. Personally, I&rsquo;ll eat Catfish any way you serve it: <strong>blackened</strong>,<strong> broiled</strong>,<strong> grilled</strong>,<strong> poached </strong>or <strong>pan fried</strong>. At one time catfish was regarded as only a Southern staple. Times have changed. Diners nationwide have doubled their waistlines and their per capita consumption of Catfish since 1986, becoming the fourth most popular fish served in the United States.<img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/ctt2.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /></div>
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<div>Another thing, ninety-four percent of all <strong>Farm-Raised Catfish</strong> harvested in this country is from family-owned farms; many of these growers are second or third generation farmers. Today, the farm-raised Catfish industry employs more than 13,000 people and contributes more than $4 billion to the economy of states like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana.</div>
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<div>Catfish is also a lean fish and is an excellent source of protein, low in saturated fat and is a moderate source of polyunsaturated (the good) fat and omega-3 fatty acids. According to a study published in the <em><strong>Journal of the American Medical Association</strong></em>, moderate fish consumption -- one to two meals a week -- may <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/ct4.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />cut the risk of sudden cardiac death in half.</div>
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<div>Anyway, why am I writing about catfish? Sometimes between art and movies and music you have to eat, and it might as well be something that isn&rsquo;t absolute crap. Here is a great recipe from <strong>The Catfish Institute</strong>. So, throw on some good music (personally I&rsquo;d go more old-school, maybe some <strong>Clifton Chenier</strong>), open up the right bottle of beer, maybe an <em><strong>Abita Amber</strong></em>, and enjoy some Catfish with a spicy fireworks rub. Bon Appetit!</div>
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Today, August 29th 2009, marks what would have been <strong>Michael Jackson</strong>'s 51st birthday. To celebrate the date and the legacy of MJ and the King of Pop's music there are numerous parties planned for this day in various cities, including San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. <br />
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In LA tonight <strong>QuestLove</strong> of the mighty <strong>Roots</strong>&nbsp;(who killed it the one time I saw them play live at Amoeba&nbsp;Hollywood two years ago --<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/hollywood/2006-september-06/the-roots/photos.html"> see pics here</a>) is overseeing the <strong>Remember the TIme</strong> special MJ birthday party tonight with a three hour set along with DJs<strong> Vikter Duplaix, Rashida </strong>and <strong>Loslito </strong>at The Church in downtown LA. The party starts at 10pm and goes til 4am. 21+ $20 admission or $15 if you <a href="javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(113,117,101,115,116,108,111,118,101,114,115,118,112,64,119,97,108,107,116,97,108,107,105,110,46,99,111,109)+'?'">send an RSVP&nbsp;message here</a> by 6pm. The Church is located at 606 E. 6th St. at the corner of Crocker, and one block east of San Pedro.<br />
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In San Francisco tonight at <a href="http://www.yoshis.com/"><strong>Yoshi's</strong></a> <strong>A-List Musiq Circle</strong> &amp; <strong>Mohogany Events</strong> are presenting what they have dubbed &quot;The Official Bay Area Michael Jackson Birthday Celebration&quot; with music by Rick &amp;&nbsp;Russ Show. The event is an after party for the <a href="http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/436">sold out Mint Condition show also at Yoshi's</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Those with ticket stubs from that show get a $5 discount on the $10 admission tag. Doors 9:30pm. Party til 2am. Yoshi's is located at&nbsp;1330 Fillmore Street. Also tonight at 9pm at The Madrone at 500 Divisidero in San Francisco there will be a screening of the new MJ&nbsp;tribute video above by&nbsp;<strong>Naplam Clique's Unity </strong>and<strong> Trevor</strong> that was directed and edited by <strong>Trevor Parham</strong> for <strong>Eklectyk Creative Media</strong> and includes the MJ&nbsp;eulogy speech by the <strong>Rev. Al Sharpton</strong>.<br />
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Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:24:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/michael-jackson-s-birthday-inspires-many-tribute-parties-.htmlLa Belle Rouge: Japanese pop merveilleuse Kanon Wakeshima casts a spell on Amoeba SF...<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Japanese pop cellist and chanteuse </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><a href="http://www.kanonweb.jp/"><span style="font-size: small;">Kanon Wakeshima</span></a></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#39;s instore appearance at Amoeba San Francisco was anything but typical. Performing a short set that included a few moments in which she explained her interests in preciously accented English and a dance prelude where she impersonated a mechanical doll come to life, Wakeshima graced the stage, flanked by a enraptured frenzy of devoted admirers, clad in an ensemble that suggested, or rather enhanced, the overall vibe of her music: a black kimono with puffed sleeves (</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4VuxJy-Gg">the likes of which Anne &quot;of Green Gables&quot; Shirley would have frothed jealously over</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">) topped with a raised, Elizabethan-esque ruffled collar, detailed at the hem with a volcanic red pattern-play&nbsp;à&nbsp;la <em>Nipponisme</em>. From beneath this romantic, east-meets-west hybrid of a cloak spilled a crimson confection of a cinched waist giving way to flowing skirts trimmed in endless&nbsp;ruffles and princess frills. One could see among the many avid onlooker&#39;s faces varied swooning expressions of delight, esteem and joy for miss Wakeshima&nbsp;as she danced, coaxed song after song from her cello-friend and sang enthusiastically from her frame of burnt caramel-colored ringlet curls. It was, in a word, very <em>Disney</em> in feeling, albeit Disney after dark.<br />
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Judging by the inspired fashion choices showcased by many of her fans at her instore show, Wakeshima, and her maker --- mysterious and reclusive musician/producer/fashion-designer/rockstar </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wx25MyOsVE">Mana</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, are lending a rather substantial hand in popularizing the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion">Gothic Lolita</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> fashion movement, a phenomenon that is said to have been started by Mana here in the states. (In fact, last week one of Japan&#39;s most famous houses of GothLoli fashions, &quot;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AcolIAPCGY">Baby, the Stars Shine Bright</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">,&quot; opened a flagship store here in San Francisco&#39;s Japantown ~<em>sugoi!</em>) Add to that the current trend of Vampire-centric fantasy fictions and the long-standing popularity of <em>anime</em>, in this case a very popular with the ladies <em>anime</em> series entitled<strong> <em>Vampire Knight</em></strong>, which features Wakeshima&#39;s single &quot;Still Doll&quot; as the closing theme, and voila! You&#39;ve got yourself a pop culture force to be reckoned with.&nbsp;<br />
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Coming almost exactly a year after he was almost killed in a <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2008/09/jamoeblog/travis-barker-dj-am-critically-injured-in-plane-crash-.html">South Carolina plane crash</a> in which he and <strong>Travis Barker</strong> survived but four others died, <strong>Adam Goldstein</strong>&nbsp;(aka <strong>DJ&nbsp;AM</strong>) was found dead in his SoHo apartment late this afternoon. According to news reports from New York it was a friend of Goldstein's,&nbsp; concerned when the celebrity DJ hadn't been heard from for a couple of days and then didn't answer his door this afternoon, who alerted authorites to check up on Goldstein.</div>
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Reportedly when the police arrived inside the 36 year old DJ's downtown Manhattan apartment his dead body was found face down on his bed and he was surrounded by prescription drugs. Reportedly since the plance crash last September Goldstein had suffered a lot of pain and had been prescribed pain killers.&nbsp;</div>
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Dramatically, his last contact with the world was on&nbsp;<strong>Twitter</strong> on Tuesday in which he tweeted the 1983 lyrics from <strong>Grandmaster Flash &amp;&nbsp;The Furious Five</strong>, &quot;New York,&nbsp;New York.&nbsp;BIg city of dreams.&nbsp;But everything in New York ain't always what it seems.&quot;&nbsp;<br />
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Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:53:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/dj-am-found-dead-of-suspected-o-d-.htmlBritpop band Oasis splits in Paris<div>
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Reports from London state that guitarist <strong>Noel</strong> Gallagher has left Britpop pioneers <strong>Oasis</strong> for once and for all, saying he &quot;simply could not go on working with <strong>Liam</strong> a day longer,&quot; and adding he is leaving the group &quot;with some sadness and great relief.&quot;</div>
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Oasis was due to perform at the <strong>Rock-en-Seine Festival</strong> near <strong>Paris</strong> on Friday, August 28th, but a message flashed to the crowd shortly before the band was to take the stage saying as a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been canceled. Many in the audience initially thought that the announcement was a joke. First reports from the backstage scene, of course by way of <strong>Twitter</strong>, said that &quot;Liam smashed Noel&rsquo;s guitar.&quot;</div>
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Oasis had sold more than <strong>50 million records</strong> worldwide. They have had <strong>eight #1 singles</strong> in the UK and have amassed fifteen NME Awards, five BRIT Awards, nine Q Awards and four MTV Europe Music Awards.</div>
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Los Angeles rapper<strong> Mr. Capone-E</strong>'s brand new release <em><strong>Diary of a G </strong></em>on his own indie <strong>HiPower Entertainment </strong>record label through <strong>KOCH</strong> is a hot new seller at the Hollywood Amoeba Music store this week, joining already popular summer releases from the <strong>Black Eyed Peas, Mos Def, Dudley Perkins</strong>, and the hip-hop emcee supergroup<strong> Slaughterhous</strong><strong>e</strong> featuring <strong>Joe Budden, Royce Da 5' 9, Crooked I,</strong> and <strong>Joell Ortiz</strong>. Mr. Capone-E's new release is bound to further broaden his fanbase, especially with such radio &amp; club ready songs as &quot;Light My Fire.&quot; Scroll down a bit to peep the video for this Auto-Tune assisted track that features<strong> Snoop Dogg</strong>. <br />
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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:38:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoeba-music-weekly-hip-hop-round-up-08-28-09.htmlEllie Greenwich 1940 - 2009<div><strong><img align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="Ellie Greenwich" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/gre1.jpg" /><br />
Ellie Greenwich</strong>, who penned dozens of classic songs in collaboration with producer <strong>Phil Spector</strong> and <strong>Jeff Barry</strong> for acts like <strong>The Ronettes</strong>, <strong>The Crystals</strong>, <strong>The Shangri-Las</strong>, <strong>Bob B. Soxx &amp; the Blue Jeans</strong>, <strong>The Jelly Beans</strong> and <strong>The Dixie Cups</strong> -- the &ldquo;<em><strong>girl group</strong></em>&rdquo; sound, died this week of a heart attack in New York&rsquo;s St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital; she had been admitted for pneumonia a few days earlier. She was 68.<br />
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<div>In her 50-year career, Greenwich, a member of the <strong>Songwriters Hall of Fame,</strong> was awarded some 25 gold and platinum discs. BMI Publishing lists more than 200 songs Greenwich wrote or co-wrote, including such classics as &ldquo;Leader Of The Pack,&rdquo; &ldquo;Chapel of Love,&rdquo; &ldquo;River Deep, Mountain High,&rdquo; &ldquo;Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),&rdquo; &ldquo;Be My Baby,&rdquo; &ldquo;Da Doo Ron Ron,&rdquo; &ldquo;Do Wah Diddy Diddy,&rdquo; &ldquo;Look of Love,&rdquo; &ldquo;Then He Kissed Me,&rdquo; &ldquo;I Can Hear Music,&rdquo; and &quot;Hanky Panky.&rdquo;</div>
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<div>Born Eleanor Louise Greenwich on Oct. 23, 1940 in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was 11 when s<img height="189" align="right" width="150" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/gre2.jpg" />he began studying accordion before switching to piano. As a teen she started her own group called The Jivettes. She got her first break as a songwriter working for <strong>Jerry </strong><strong>Leiber</strong> and <strong>Mike Stoller</strong>, who had written dozens of classic 1950&rsquo;s rock tunes. Her first chart success was &quot;This Is It&quot; with the Jay and the Americans, which she co-wrote with <strong>Doc Pomus</strong> and <strong>Tony Powers</strong>.</div>
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Greenwich became part of the mythical <strong>Brill Building</strong> stable of songwriters where she teamed up with her husband Jeff Barry. Other Brill writers included <strong>Hal David and Burt Bacharach</strong>, <strong>Carole King and Gerry Goffin</strong>, <strong>Barry Mann</strong> <strong>and Cynthia Weil</strong> plus the likes of <strong>Neil Sedaka</strong>, <strong>Neil Diamond</strong> and <strong>Paul Simon</strong>.</div>
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<div>Greenwich and Barry also recorded a few sides as <strong>The Raindrops</strong>; their biggest hit was &ldquo;The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget.&rdquo; In 1964 alone, the two song writers were responsible for some 17 different singles reaching the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However the following year, 1965, she and Barry divorced, and Greenwich suffered a nervous breakdown.</div>
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<div>She went on to produce songs for ar<em><strong><img align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/gre4.jpg" /></strong></em>tists like <strong>Frank Sinatra</strong>, <strong>Dusty Springfield</strong>, <strong>The Definitive Rock Choral </strong>and <strong>Ella Fitzgerald</strong>, but she really hit her stride working with Neil Diamond, producing his early hits &ldquo;Cherry Cherry,&rdquo; &ldquo;Solitary Man&rdquo; and &ldquo;Kentucky Woman.&rdquo; &nbsp;In 1968, Greenwich released her first solo album, <em><strong>Ellie Greenwich Composes, Produces and Sings</strong></em>, and included two charting singles, &quot;Niki Hoeky&quot; (a #1 hit in Japan) and &quot;I Want You To Be My Baby.&quot;</div>
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<div>In the 1980s she created a musical based on her life entitled <em><strong>Leader of the Pack</strong></em>, from the song co-written with her former husband Barry. The Broadway musical included many of her hits and told the story of her rise and fall. It scored several <strong>Tony and Grammy Award nominations</strong>.</div>
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This past week the Beach Boys' <strong>Brian Wilson</strong> was quoted by the <em>L.A.Times</em>, saying, &ldquo;She was the greatest melody writer of all time.&rdquo;<br />
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1981, USA, 85 minutes<br />
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dir. Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly<br />
Friday / Saturday: 7:30pm, <a target="_blank" linktype="link" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=gua4r5cab.0.0.gz4w5rcab.0&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8dLBE5PM4Gk&amp;id=preview" track="on">Watch The Trailer!</a><br />
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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:20:56 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/this-week-at-the-new-beverly-august-28-september-3.htmlEvil Dead Marathon at the New Beverly!<img src="http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/content/new-beverly/myspace-logo.jpg" alt="" /> <p>
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<font size="+1">Two Nights Only!<br />Friday & Saturday August 28 & 29</font><br /> <br /><font size="+2">Evil Dead Marathon</font><br />
All Tickets $10. One Ticket Admits You To All Three Films!<br /> New Beverly Cinema 7165 W Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036</p><p>
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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:26:31 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/evil-dead-marathon-at-the-new-beverly-.htmlout this week 7/28 & 8/4 & 8/11...pictureplane...blur...modest mouse...patrick wolf...<img width="250" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="222" align="left" style="border: 3px solid yellow;" alt="where the wild things are" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/wherethewildthingsare" /><br />
I spend most of my weeks looking for new albums to fall in love with. I try to listen to most albums at least once. This is a big quest since there are still a ton of albums out every week. I&nbsp;just wait and hope for those special little albums that get me excited and keep me looking for my new favorite. It keeps me going knowing that there are new fantastic albums out every month just waiting to be discovered. There are the obvious albums to get excited about. In a couple of weeks the <em><strong>Where the Wild Things Are</strong></em> soundtrack comes out. The movie looks amazingly fantastic. The trailer for the movie already made me cry. <strong>Spike Jonze</strong> is the perfect director to create a live action film out of this great children's book. And just when I didn't think it could get any better, I&nbsp;find out that <strong>Karen O</strong> from the <strong>Yeah Yeah Yeahs</strong> did the soundtrack. I&nbsp;mean, really! How could it possibly get any better? I&nbsp;am dying of anticipation to see the movie and hear the soundtrack! I have not even tried to listen to any tracks online. I&nbsp;just want to wait and hear the whole thing when it comes out. But I&nbsp;honestly think that I might just have to wait and experience the soundtrack for the first time<img width="300" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="169" align="right" style="border: 3px solid purple;" alt="where the wild things are spike jonze" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/wherethewildthingsare2" /> while watching the movie. That is always the problem with getting a soundtrack before you see the movie.&nbsp;I think it is best to experience it in the theater for the first time. Then you can go back and relive it and listen to the soundtrack. I seriously can't wait! <br />
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I am also very excited about the new <strong>Place to Bury Strangers</strong>. The new album called <em><strong>Exploding Head</strong></em> is not out for a couple of months. I know it will be one of my favorites. And it really is hard to compete with their excellent, amazing debut a couple of years ago. It was my favorite of the year back in 2007. This new album will easily be in competition for the number one spot this year. It is easy to get excited about the new albums from your favorite bands. But even more exciting is the new bands that seem to come from nowhere to deilver you their fantastic debut albums. Or the bands and artists that have been working for years that finally make it into your life somehow.<img width="250" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="250" align="left" style="border: 3px solid yellow;" title="Black Box" alt="black box dreamland" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/blackbox" /><br />
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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/out-this-week-7-28-8-4-8-11-pictureplane-blur-modest-mouse-patrick-wolf-.htmlBOB DYLAN'S CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART ALBUM<img align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" title="Everybody must......make a Christmas album" alt="Bob Dylan christmas in the heart" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/christmas_cover.jpg" /><br />
As he announced in the news page on his <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/#/news">official website</a> a couple of days ago, <strong>Bob Dylan</strong> has recorded a Christmas music album that he has scheduled to release this coming holliday season. To be titled <em><strong>Christmas In The Heart</strong></em> and released on <strong>Columbia Records,</strong> it will be availabe at Amoeba&nbsp;Music and other stores on October 13th. <br />
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The release, which will be the 47th album by the legendary musician born <strong>Robert Allen Zimmerma</strong><strong>n</strong>, will be Dylan's first Christmas themed release and will likely surprise some fans who never expected the artist, who came to fame as a protest singer, to cover such songs as &quot;Winter&nbsp;Wonderland.&quot; Other songs to be featured on the album include &ldquo;Little Drummer Boy&rdquo; and &ldquo;Must Be Santa.&rdquo; <br />
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The album will not be the first time the 68 year old artist has done traditional Christmas fare though. Three years ago on his radio show, <em>Theme Time Radio Hour </em>series 1, episode 34, he did a reading of &quot;Twas The Night Before Christmas&quot; (video clip below). Dylan's <em>Christmas In The Heart</em> will be a benefit for various hunger-relief charities including the wonderful <a href="http://feedingamerica.org/"><strong>Feeding America</strong></a> organization. <br />
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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/bob-dylan-s-christmas-in-the-heart-album.htmlThe Beatles Part 3<p>
We are kicking off the celebration in honor of the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/content/beatles-remastered-amoeba.html" target="_blank">digitally remastered <strong>Beatles</strong> reissues</a> set to hit Amoeba September 9! Each Wednesday until September 2, we will present a segment of The Beatles&#39; biography. Then, the week of September 2-9 will be marked here on the blog with a number of Beatles related posts with a huge variety of topics! You can begin with Part One of the fabled band&#39;s history if you missed it by<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/the-beatles-pt-1.html" target="_blank"> clicking right here;</a> then check out last week&#39;s Part Two <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/the-beatles-pt-2.html" target="_blank">right here.</a> Now, we are on to Part Three:<br />
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<strong>BEATLEMANIA HITS THE US</strong><br />
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It was now <strong>Brian Epstein</strong>&rsquo;s job to break The Beatles in America, the world&rsquo;s largest music market. To date, it had been<img align="left" alt="introducing the beatles vee jay" height="205" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/Introducing-the-Beatles.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" width="200" /> a frustrating task. <strong>Capitol Records</strong>, EMI&rsquo;s American arm, had declined to release the group&rsquo;s records, pointing to US listeners&rsquo; historic indifference to English acts. The band&rsquo;s material had instead been licensed to American independent labels &ndash; <strong>Vee-Jay, Swan</strong>, and <strong>Tollie</strong> &ndash; without any measurable sales.<br />
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But Epstein&rsquo;s acumen and a propitious confluence of events reversed the band&rsquo;s stateside fortunes. In November 1963, Epstein convinced <strong>Ed Sullivan</strong>, host of the top-rated TV variety show in the US, to book The Beatles for four appearances in early 1964, after Sullivan had witnessed a frenzied mob of Beatlemaniacs at London&rsquo;s Heathrow Airport during a overseas trip.<br />
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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/the-beatles-part-3.htmlFRIEND OF AMOEBA ELVIS COSTELLO CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY <div style="text-align: center;">
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Happy birthday to friend of Amoeba <strong>Elvis Costello </strong>-- born<strong> Declan Patrick MacManu</strong>s on August 25th 1954 -- who celebrates his 55th birthday today. A renowned, longtime crate digging music collector with most diverse tastes, Elvis is not surprisingly a big fan of shopping at Amoeba Music.<br />
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&quot;One of the things that makes Amoeba a stop for me is that you are going to go in there with the intention of buying one record and come out with an armfull of other things because you know you want to go into the area where the jazz artists are. But at the same time they're sitting next to the hillbilly records, or the opera records, or the show tune records, or the new groups that are coming up and the old groups that are still there,&quot; Elvis told Ameoba's <strong>Josh&nbsp;Pollock</strong> at the Haight Street store on June 22nd when the artist played packed houses at both the San Francisco and the Hollywood Amoeba&nbsp;Music stores on that same day.<br />
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Above is the full Elvis Amoeba interview, interspersed with some music, which includes Elvis talking with Josh Pollock about such topics as his new TV show <a href="http://www.sundancechannel.com/spectacle/"><strong><em>Spectacle</em></strong> on the Sundance channel</a> (where his guests have included&nbsp;<strong>Smokey Robinson, Diana Krall, Herbi</strong><img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/elvis-costello.jpg" alt="elvis costello secret, profane &amp; sugarcane" style="border: 8px solid white;" /><strong>e Hancock</strong>, and <strong>Bill Clinton</strong>), and also how certain fans just want him to remain 22 forever and be making the same music that he was over three decades ago.&nbsp;Meantime, below is the Amoeba Music concert segment featuring Elvis and band doing the songs &quot;Complicated Shadows,&quot; &quot;Down Among The Wines &amp;..,&quot; &quot;Blame It On Cain,&quot; &quot;Red Cotton,&quot; and &quot;My All-Time Doll.&quot; <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/buy-stuff/detai">Click here to purchase Elvis Costello's new album <em>Secret, Profane &amp; Sugarcane</em></a>: Note that these videos are different from the famous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-r_Xdk7tI">Elvis Costello - Live at Amoeba YouTube</a> video, which was culled from these videos. That video has racked up a quarter of a million YouTube hits since it was posted on there three weeks ago.<br />
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/friend-of-amoeba-elvis-costello-celebrates-birthday-.htmlThe roots of jazz - ragtimeAlthough for most people the strains of <strong>&quot;The Entertainer&quot;</strong> and other rags now primarily evoke quaint, scratchy images of silent films projected at the wrong speed, when <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/ragtime/page1.html">ragtime</a></strong> first appeared&nbsp;around the 1870s, it was the soundtrack of <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2008/10/eric-s-blog/happy-missouri-day-.html"><strong>Missouri</strong></a>'s whorehouses, parlors and gambling clubs.<br />
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Ragtime was also one of the first truly and distinctly <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/usa/page1.html">American</a> </strong>musical forms. After <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/contributors/eric-s-blog/page1.html"><strong>cakewalk</strong></a>, ragtime was one of the first global music crazes. That Ragtime's cradle was the river towns of the <strong>Missouri Valley</strong> shouldn't be a surprise. Missouri, located at the center of the country, has long been and remains a crossroads of cultural exchanges. No state borders more than Missouri and noted ragtime musicians came from all the neighbors and spread to them (except <strong>Nebraska</strong> and<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/iowa/page1.html">Iowa</a></strong>, states whose people are known to be deaf to the joys of melody and dance). The character of ragtime -- drawing from <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/folk-music/page1.html">folk</a>, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/europe/page1.html">European</a> </strong>and<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/usa/page1.html">American</a> <a href="http://www.pandora.com/station/play/50697686646280195">marches</a>, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/buy-stuff/search.html?bsq=minstrel">minstrelsy</a>, spirituals</strong> and other forms -- connects <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/europe/page1.html">Europe</a>, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/africa/page1.html">Africa</a></strong> and <strong>North America</strong>, town and country, classical and popular, black and white.<br />
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:48:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/the-roots-of-jazz-ragtime.htmlNew 12" Electronic Releases at Amoeba Hollywood - 08/28/09<div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/GetAttachment-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11.aspx.jpeg" /><br />
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<em>TRILINGUAL DANCE</em>... 12&quot; <br />
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Two club bangers from the Austrian producer. Sounds like &quot;DC microwaved his MicroKorg&quot; on the bumpy, electronic A-side. B/w &quot;TROPICAL HANDS&quot; which has similar Detroit styled synths mixed with glitchy efx but at a more laidback down tempo.<br />
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<em>NIGHT FREAKS REMIXED</em> 12&quot; <br />
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Here we see techno maestro ORLANDO VOORN and London's PAUL MAC (STIMULUS) tweak out &quot;BASS SHIFTER,&quot; whilst the original version of &quot;RATIO&quot; appears alongside the devastating remix by THE PARALLEL. Already charted by DAVE CLARKE, DETROIT GRAND PUBAS, CHYMERA, and more.<br />
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Hanzo Steel&nbsp;</strong><em>KILL BILL MIXES VOL</em>. 2 LP HANZOSTEELLP2&nbsp;</div>
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7 Samurai&nbsp;</strong><em>FAVELA GYAL W/MC COPPA</em> 7&quot; PCR049</div>
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Boy 8-Bit&nbsp;</strong><em>BALTIC PINE EP</em> 12&quot; THISIM016</div>
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Doves&nbsp;</strong><em>COMPULSION-ANDREW WEATHERALL</em> 12&quot; HVN19212P3</div>
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Doves&nbsp;</strong><em>JETSTREAM-LINDSTROM REMIX </em>HVN19212P2</div>
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Doves&nbsp;</strong><em>JETSTREAM-SASHA REMIXES </em>12&quot; HVN19212P1</div>
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Fulgeance&nbsp;</strong><em>SMARTBANGING-J.EDGAR RMX</em> 12&quot; HAND12004</div>
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Kazey &amp; Bulldog&nbsp;</strong><em>RIDIN' HIGH VOL.1 </em>12&quot; DTS010</div>
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Laura Vane&nbsp;</strong><em>ROOF OFF-DIESLER REMIX</em> 12&quot; UNIQ164</div>
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Lee Coombs &amp; Uberzone&nbsp;</strong><em>RIGHT NOW </em>12&quot; LOT49048</div>
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Lily Allen</strong><em><strong>&nbsp;</strong>22 (PIC DISC)</em> 7&quot; REG154</div>
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Matt White&nbsp;</strong><em>BEAT THE HEAT</em> 12&quot; RI001</div>
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Miike Snow&nbsp;</strong><em>ANIMAL REMIXES-CROOKERS</em> 12&quot; 88697565531</div>
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Mono-poly&nbsp;</strong><em>THE GEORGE MACHINE EP</em> 12&quot; FACES1201&nbsp;</div>
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Siriusmo&nbsp;</strong><em>THE UNINVITED GUEST </em>12&quot; MONKEYTOWN001 &nbsp;</div>
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:13:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/new-12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-28-09.html"It's the MOST... jazziest tiiime of the yeeear...!"<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/jazzatnewport.jpg" alt="jazz poster" style="width: 264px; height: 359px;" /><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/musicmusic.jpg" alt="drums" style="width: 270px; height: 360px;" /></div>
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I know it&rsquo;s probably plastered all over your calendar already, but just in case you didn&rsquo;t know, this is <strong>Jazz Week</strong> at <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/sized-images?src=%2Fuploads%2Fexamples%2Fhollywood1.jpg&amp;width=451&amp;fitType=max"><strong>Amoeba Music Hollywood</strong></a>. This means that, in addition to our normal, totally tubular jazz selection, we&rsquo;ve squeezed in some additional, choice inventory, plus we&rsquo;re hosting jazz-spinning DJ&rsquo;s and such. I think I saw a colorful banner with the word &ldquo;<strong>JAZZ</strong>&rdquo; in bold letters somewhere, too. I mean, people &ndash; come with your party hats on!<br />
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The back room of Amoeba Music Hollywood is what we call the &ldquo;jazz room&rdquo;, though it hosts many other genres of music*, one of which is the <strong>Soundtrack</strong> section, where I&rsquo;m most oft found. Some well-meaning employees once tried to get people to nickname the room &ldquo;jazzical&rdquo; for the large section of classical music that frames the opposite side from jazz, but it never stuck, partially because people were so accustomed to saying &ldquo;jazz room&rdquo; and partially, I&rsquo;m assuming, because saying &ldquo;jazzical&rdquo; makes you feel like an effeminate fat kid, which isn&rsquo;t a fresh sort of feeling at all.<br />
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Within the soundtrack section are some great jazz albums, which will be the focus of this blog entry. So for those of you hoping for a 500 word expos&eacute; on actress <a href="http://www.ediemc.com/pages/1/index.htm"><strong>Edie McClurg</strong></a>, I&rsquo;m sorry but this isn&rsquo;t the blog for you.<br />
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:03:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-it-s-the-most-jazziest-tiiime-of-the-yeeear-.htmlJay Reatard Amoeba Tour Hits the Bay Area<strong>Jay Reatard</strong> embarked on a special indie-record store tour in support of his new album, <strong><em>Watch Me Fall</em>.</strong> He played all three Amoeba stores, beginning at Amoeba Hollywood on August 18, 2009, and ending with shows at Amoeba San Francisco and Amoeba Berkeley over the weekend. Read our eyewitness recounts of those loud, fast &amp; furious shows:<br />
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The stage was set, the crowd was waiting, the lights were bright. Jay Reatard and company were faced with the eternal test: with music best suited for dirt-paved basements and dimly-lit dive bars, could the <img width="350" height="187" align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="Jay Reatard at Amoeba SF" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Nor Cal Bloggers/Jay_Reatard/jayReatard21.jpg" />rockers bring the noise to the daytime in-store appearance? Could the beasts of the night work their magic beneath the fluorescents? Time would tell.<br />
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Yeah, time and <strong>loud-ass guitars</strong>. The power trio lumbered onstage, flipped the switch, and commenced with the aural assault. Implementing some combination of <strong>feedback, reverb</strong>, and an <strong>echo effect</strong> which he would turn to throughout the set, Jay Reatard turned to the band and thunder rolled, baby.<br />
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Sludgy pounding, birthed in the garage and raised on the street, rattled the record store to its core. When rock fury hits a daytime show there always seems to be that element of <strong>&quot;Is this allowed? Is this supposed to be happening?&quot;</strong> The well-planned abrasive intro struck the crowd with offensive force. Folks in the first row reeled, eyes wide. A man holding his phone texted awkwardly. It was pretty in-your- face. <img width="250" height="167" align="right" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="Jay Reatard Band at SF" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Nor Cal Bloggers/Jay_Reatard/jayReatard10.jpg" /><br />
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:17:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/jay-reatard-amoeba-tour-hits-the-bay-area.htmlTROUBLE THE WATER FILMMAKERS CARL DEAL & TIA LESSIN INTERVIEW
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The most accurately profound observation in the trailer above for <em><strong>Trouble The Water -- </strong></em>the award winning documentary about Hurricane Katrina -- is the statement that the disaster that happened this time four years ago, &quot;is not about a hurricane. It's about America.&quot; The movie screens for free in LA at 8pm this evening (Monday 8/24) as the launch of the new series -- <strong>Amoeba's Monday Movies</strong> @ <a href="http://www.space15twenty.com/"><strong>Space15Twenty</strong></a>. Amoeba will be selling the DVD at the screening tonight, though it is not due in stores till Aug 25! <a href="http://www.space15twenty.com/" target="_blank">Click here for more info on the screening. </a>It is an important film; as the last subject in the trailer from the <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/img-poster.jpg" alt="Trouble The Water" title="Trouble The Water available on DVD on Tuesday, August 25th." style="border: 8px solid white;" />film points out, &quot;Katrina is still going on&quot; in this country's treatment of its poor and underprivaleged. <br />
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In the four years since Katrina there have been many portrayals of the this American tragedy both produced for the screen and published as the written word, including <strong>Spike Lee'</strong>s wonderful <strong>HBO</strong> documentary<em><strong> When The Levees&nbsp;Broke</strong></em> (also available on DVD at Amoeba). But most of the stories told relied on photos or film footage recorded either after the fact or from afar -- including the numerous aerial shots of the devastating hurricane's aftermath. In contrast,<em> Trouble&nbsp;The&nbsp;Water</em> offers footage shot from the inside, from the ground (or water, to be speciific) by two victims of Katrina: the husband and wife team<strong> Scott</strong> and <strong>Kimberly Roberts </strong>of New Orleans' Ninth Ward district, who captured their amazing survival tale on video. <br />
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In celebration of the Amoeba Hollywood Jazz Blowout sale, I&rsquo;ve been spending time on my computer checking out older Jazz videos. In the process, I have rediscovered the many great performances from the <a href="http://www.montreuxjazz.com">Montreux Jazz</a> Festival, which is held in Switzerland during the month of July. The festival, which started in 1967, was originally held at the old Montreux Casino until, of course, it burned down in 1971. The fire was apparently caused by &ldquo;some stupid with a flare gun&rdquo; while <a href="http://www.zappa.com">Frank Zappa</a> was playing. You might heard about it in a little ditty by <a href="http://www.deeppurple.com">Deep Purple</a> called &ldquo;Smoke On The Water.&rdquo; The casino was rebuilt but due to the enormity of the festival, it is now held at the larger Convention Centre in Montreux with two main stages and several small stages. <br />
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Perhaps every legendary jazz artist you can think of has played Montreux. Over the years the festival has become less about jazz and has opened its doors to all kinds of music. Still, for any musician, this is the place to be seen. Over two hundred thousand people attend the fest<img width="280" height="210" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Gomez/nina.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" />ival every year and even more see the performances via television, web casts and through the many DVDs that have been released over the years.<br />
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Just watching the highlights of the forty-two year history of the festival on <a href="http://www.youtube.com">Youtube</a> was overwhelming. There have been thousands of solos of all kinds and excellent musicianship throughout; however, it's the vocalists that provide some of my favorites performances. I picked three videos that feature <a href="http://www.aretha-franklin.com">Aretha Franklin</a>, <a href="http://www.ninasimone.com">Nina Simone</a> and <strong>Elis Regina</strong>.<br />
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:56:52 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-23-2009.htmlBOUQUET OF ROSESure, he interrupts too much to reiterate points that are already clear, but <strong>Charlie Rose</strong> has a solid track record for getting some pretty good interviews on the tube. All of his shows are archived online and can be watched for free. Here's what's been accompanying my suppers [click pic for the show]:<br />
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Rose is at his best when he's talking architecture. Here he talks to <a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/7143" target="_blank"><strong>Philip Johnson</strong></a> about the architect's early days as a fascist and his homosexuality.<br />
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One of Rose's favorite guests is <a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/7257" target="_blank"><strong>Quentin Tarantino</strong></a> who's appeared at least 9 times on the show. If there's a guy who likes to hear himself talk more than Rose, it's Tarantino. Thus, much boisterous conversation about film ensues. Also, it's interesting to compare the above interview with the director at the beginning of his superstardom to the way he sees himself now.<br />
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Along with the Johnson interview, this one with writer <a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5639" target="_blank"><strong>David Foster Wallace</strong></a> is a favorite of mine. The man is just so genuine in his answers. He critiques the television interview while giving one and has a lot to say about film, particularly <strong>David Lynch</strong>. Speaking of whom:<br />
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Here's <a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3901" target="_blank">Lynch</a> being Lynch.<br />
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I always jump at any opportunity to travel and explore new places, and to check out innovative new ideas, especially when music and good friends are involved. So when my crewmates in <strong>OkiZoo </strong>-- the hip-hop band that I was a member of when living in Japan up til about four years ago and am still a member of even though we are now scattered all over -- invited me to meet them two weekends ago in Seattle, Washington with the purpose of joining them in a performance at the still burgeoning <strong>Photosynthesis Festival 2.0.</strong> festival at Trout Lake, August 7 - 10, I was on the first plane out west from Maryland.<br />
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To be honest, I&nbsp;knew little about this festival, which began last year but my crewmates had told me that the lineup included the headliners <strong>Amon Tobin, Daedelus,</strong> and <strong>Kid Koala</strong> and that the festival was pretty unique in a summer filled with music themed festivals all around the US. The organizers behind the event are coming from a strictly DIY philosophy and say that the festival's goal is to &quot;take your dreams, ideas and skills and weave them into nature, music, art, and education. The goal is a sustainable community where everyone is simultaneously the student and teacher.&quot; The hope for this second year of the North West fest was to &quot;focus on sustainability through permaculture, renewable energy, water conservation, holistic healing, waste reduction, and wild crafting,&quot; and it seemed like they accomplished this, pretty much, although the turnout of about 2000 for such a really wonderful event was less than I&nbsp;thought it deserved. <br />
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Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:17:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/photosynthesis-festival-2-0-.htmlDJ Quest & DJ Project's students rock Amoeba SF!<div style="text-align: left;">
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Last night at Amoeba San Francisco, Amoeba&#39;s DJ series Mandala &amp; <a href="http://djquest.com/" target="_blank">DJ Quest</a> presented a very special Mandala with a<strong> DJ Project</strong> set!<br />
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<a href="http://www.thedjproject.com/" target="_blank">The DJ Project </a>featured youth DJs from <a href="http://www.horizons-sf.org/" target="_blank">Horizons Unlimited </a>and the <strong>Quest School of DJ Arts</strong>. The DJ Project is run out of Horizons, and is a safe place for at-risk youth to gain arts education as well as the empoyment and entrepreneurial skills they need to jump start music-related careers. Among other things, they learn about small business management, event production, audio production, DJing, breakdancing and community service.<br />
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With a set up of 6 turntables, countless mixers and laptops, the eight youth DJs tore up the stage with their 15-20 minute sets. The DJs played a good mix of Hip-Hop, Top 40, Classic Rock, and R&amp;B, but there was also dancing, live Hip-Hop, and there were two MCs that kept the energy alive in between sets, and gave shout outs to all the performers.<br />
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Another nite of Minimal Mahem @ <strong>M/R/X</strong>! <strong>L.A.</strong>'s<strong> Testicular Manslaughter </strong>has developed into a very interesting minimalist outfit-- check out their video below. <strong>Houston</strong> based <strong>Twisted Wires </strong>are on the <strong>TMU&nbsp;</strong>imprint <strong>Italians Do It Better</strong>, home of <strong>Glass Candy</strong>. Their tracks definitely have a darkened dance vibe, but there's plenty of oddities weaved in to enrich their sound. An above average bill for sure, and you get to smell all that is <strong>Chinatown </strong>on your way to and from your dark and dank parking spot.<br />
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:15:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/m-r-x-tonite-.htmlCass McCombs ChatsCurrently on tour and one busy guy, <strong>Cass McCombs</strong> is out there supporting his recently released, gorgeous and critically acclaimed record <em><strong>Catacombs, </strong></em>on <strong>Domino Records.</strong> You can hear a few tracks from the album <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cassmccombs" target="_blank">on his myspace page.</a> Here, he chats with me about, among other things, that new album and its creation, the rigors of touring and his dream show billing.<br />
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<strong>Cass McCombs:</strong>&nbsp;Ariel (the producer) subletted an old house in Hollywood he found on craigslist and we recorded in <img height="250" width="250" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Sarah/catacombs-cass-mccombs" alt="catacombs cass mccombs" style="border: 8px solid white;" />the living room, in addition to various other spots around town.<br />
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<strong>ME:&nbsp;How did you decide what production moves to make and how to shape its sound? Love the bit of country twang added by the pedal steel sounds.</strong><br />
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:29:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sing/cass-mccombs-chats.htmlAMOEBA MUSIC HIP-HOP WEEKLY ROUND UP: 08:21:09<div style="text-align: center;">
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1)&nbsp;<strong>Gas Mask Colony</strong><em> Genuine&nbsp;Masters of Ceremony</em> (Gurp City)<br />
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As my man Luis @ Amoeba Music San Francisco points out in his quick run-down of the new hip-hop top six CDs of the week, two thirds are Bay Area homegrown releases, proving the Bay (and SF in particular these days) is in a most healthy and prolific state of rap creativity. In the number one chart position is <strong>Gurp City</strong>'s own <strong>Gas Mask Colony</strong> with the brand new full-length <em><strong>Genuine Masters of Ceremony.</strong></em> Also repping the Bay is <strong>Messy Marv</strong> under his alias <strong>The Boy Boy Young Mess</strong> and his second installment in the mixtape series <strong><em>Prices On My Head (The Money On Yo Family) Vol 2</em></strong> with an impressive lineup that includes guests <strong>Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy</strong> &amp;<strong> Lil Webbie.</strong> Meantime, SF rap artist <strong>Kaz-Well</strong> -- self described &ldquo;hip-hop geek&quot; -- has a nice retro hip-hop feel to his brand new CD <strong><em>Fish Outta Water</em></strong> which, note, is titled exactly the same as the new&nbsp;release from SoCal hip-hopper <strong>Chali 2na</strong>. Great minds think alike, I guess.<br />
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:26:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoeba-music-hip-hop-weekly-round-up-08-21-09.htmlTarantino Wows His Fans @ Amoeba Hollywood<div style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" height="600" alt="tarantino records amoeba records" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/tarantino-records" /></div>
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Thursday night, August 20, Amoeba Hollywood made a miraculous transformation into <strong>Tarantino Records</strong>, with a banner of <strong>Quentin Tarantino</strong>'s stark black and white image draped over the mural on the Ivar St. side of the building, for the premiere of Tarantino's newest film,<strong><em> Inglourious Basterds</em></strong>. Three hundred lucky fans woke up at the crack of dawn two days earlier, on Tuesday August 18, to secure their place in line to meet the iconic director, and to see the special midnight showing of <em>Inglourious Basterds</em> at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood. Tickets quickly sold out Tuesday morning and, on the day of Quentin's appearance, the excitement was palpable.<br />
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Fans lined up outside the store, greeted by a bank of &ldquo;soldiers&rdquo; standing by the front doors and then escorted into place inside by Amoeba staff. Once inside, fans were treated to blistering jams such as &quot;Pour Some Sugar on Me,&quot; courtesy of <strong>DJ Charisma</strong> from Power 106, as they waited patiently in the signing line, some of them dressed as Vincent Vega, Jules Winnfield, and other characters from Tarantino films. Tarantino was beaming as he fed off the enraptured crowd, posing for pictures with babies, signing records, DVDs, action figures, and books, sending away fan after fan with a huge smile on their face. Showing immense love for his fans, he dubbed them &quot;the true believers&quot; and the &quot;Thursday mother fuckers,&quot; to which they roared in approval.<br />
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Once again, this weekend in the Bay Area there is a lot of really great, fun stuff happening; much of it is either quite affordable for any size wallet or else totally free, as in the case of the three recommended Bay Area Amoeba Music always-free instores this weekend, including the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/san-francisco/2009-august-21/dj-quest-amoeba-s-mandala-dj-series-present-the-dj-project-featuring-horizons-unlimited-dj-project-and-quest-school-of-dj-arts-youth-djs/artist.html" target="_blank"><strong>DJ Ques</strong>t &amp; the <strong>Horizons Unlimited/DJ Project </strong>showcase </a>later tonight in SF and the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/calendars.html" target="_blank">two <strong>Jay Reatard </strong>instores </a>at both Bay Amoeba locations, tomorrow and Sunday. 6pm is the start time for all Amoeba shows this weekend.<br />
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The historic<strong> <a href="http://www.paramounttheatre.com/" target="_blank">Paramount Theater</a> </strong>on Broadway near 20th in downtown Oakland is the finest preserved art deco building in California, and tonight (Friday, August 21) there will be a screening of the <strong>Alfred Hitchcock </strong>classic <em><strong>Rear Window</strong></em>. The film is a masterpiece, deserving of being fully appreciated on the big screen. The film tells the tale of wheelchair-bound photographer <strong>Jeff Jeffries</strong>' (<strong>James Stewart</strong>) peeking through binoculars into the windows of his Greenwich Village apartment neighbors while his girlfriend, <strong>Lisa Fremont, </strong>played by <strong>Grace Kelly</strong>, isn't so sure he should be spying. But then Jeff witnesses a murder -- or has he? <br />
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The Hitchcock film is a part of the ongoing but sporadic, budget priced <strong>Paramount Movie Classic</strong><strong>s</strong> series. I attended the last one in early July, a screening of the 3D horror flick <em><strong>Creature From The Black Lagoon</strong></em>, and it was so much fun -- especially when you go with a large group of people. Not to mention there's a mere $5 (cash only) entrance fee that includes the live Wurltizer organ serenade plus a raffle with a chance to win free prizes. Plus, there's the classic movie previews and historic newsreels. The turnout for that screening was so large that by about 7:50pm the theater had reached capacity and people were being turned away at the door, so get there with time to spare, especially if you are driving, since parking is scarce. Cycle or take BART to the 19th/Broadway stop one block away. Ticket box opens at 6pm. Doors open at 7pm. <a href="http://www.paramounttheatre.com/">More info here</a>. <br />
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With so much<strong> Manson</strong> talk this month, post-hippie cult hucksters have been on my mind. I've been revisiting some of my <strong>Family</strong>, <strong>Source</strong> and<strong> Alamo</strong> books &amp; LPs and really steeping in just what a mindfuck of time it was in<strong> California</strong> back in the 70's. <strong>Ellroy</strong>'s first book, <em><strong>Killer On The Road</strong></em>, does a nice job of getting across the general malaise of the era, although it's a graphic &amp; somewhat tedious read.&nbsp; <br />
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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:40:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/sabbath-assembly-this-sunday-the-cinefamily.htmlThe roots of jazz -- cakewalk -- Amoeba's Jazz WeekA performative, competitive dance known as the <strong>chalk line walk</strong> first appeared around the 1850s on the plantations along the <strong>Gulf Coast</strong>. Its origins lay in the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/africa/page1.html">African</a></strong>-derived dance known as <strong>the bamboula</strong> -- also the name of a drum -- and it was performed in <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/new-orleans/page1.html">New Orleans</a>, </strong>where on Sundays slaves were allowed to congregate. In their limited freedom, they not only danced the bamboula, but also dances like the<strong> pile, chactas </strong>and the<strong> carabine </strong>in<strong> Congo Square </strong>and at their masters' homes. <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/buy-stuff/search.html?bsq=Gottschalk">Louis Moreau Gottschalk</a></strong>, a local creole composer was inspired by the dances and wrote <strong>&quot;Bamboula, dance des n&egrave;gres, Op.2&quot;</strong> in 1848. By the 1850s, the bamboula's popularity had spread to <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/florida/page1.html">Florida</a></strong>, where it possibly mixed with the dance traditions of the <strong>Seminole</strong>. It eventually developed into the <strong>cakewalk</strong>, which quickly became popular throughout the Gulf Coast.&nbsp;<br />
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Whereas the&nbsp;<strong>minstrelsy</strong> craze of the 1840s-1860s&nbsp;was the first major cross-racial American musical exchange, cakewalk's heyday from the&nbsp;1850s-1890s was probably the second and importantly, a reversal. Minstrelsy&nbsp;was a product of&nbsp;white musicans&nbsp;seeking to simultaneuosly imitate and mock&nbsp;black customs, but cakewalks&nbsp;were initially produced by&nbsp;black&nbsp;performers imitating and mocking whites. Thus began a long history of back and forth musical and cultural dialogues that have been behind nearly every significant innovation in American music.<br />
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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/the-roots-of-jazz-cakewalk-amoeba-s-jazz-week.htmlAugust 19, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/glitterticket-1.jpg" alt="Glitter movie ticket stub Egyptian Theatre" /></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-19-2009.html
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:34:47 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-19-2009.htmlRay Bradbury Signing & Birthday Party This Sat 22nd<img width="275" height="247" align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/storefront.jpg" /><br />
One of my favorite spots in <strong>L.A.</strong> is having a birthday party for the legendary <strong>Ray Bradbury</strong>. The <strong>Mystery and Imagination</strong> bookstore is hosting the event for the author of such legendary works as <em><strong>Fahrenheit 451</strong></em> &amp; <em><strong>The Martian Chronicles</strong></em> as well as many volumes of short stories, <em><strong>Forever And The Earth</strong></em> being my personal favorite. I doubt that the crowd will be as well dressed as the group below though. Any fan of genre fiction that hasn't been to the store HAS to make a trip down there, even if it's not on the 22nd. Their stock of pulp, fantasy &amp; sci-fi is stunning and the owners are true believers who are passionate about their work.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/ray-bradbury-signing-birthday-party-this-sat-22nd.htmlJames Luther Dickinson 1941 – 2009<img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/dic1.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><br />
<div>The legendary Memphis musician, producer, and raconteur <strong>James Luther Dickinson</strong> died this past Saturday in a Memphis hospital after complications following triple bypass heart surgery; he was 67. Dickinson played with the likes of <strong>Aretha Franklin, Ry Cooder</strong> and The <strong>Rolling Stones</strong> and helped shape what would be called the <strong>Memphis Sound</strong>, a gritty blend of gospel, country and southern blues. Though never exactly a household name, Dickinson is one those great cult figures in musical history whose life and stories were bigger than the times themselves.</div>
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<div>Jim Dickinson was born November 15, 1941 in Little Rock, Arkansas. His family moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1949. He signed his first recording contract right out of high school with <strong>Rubin Cherry's Home of the Blues</strong>. Later Dickinson recorded for <strong>Sam Phillips' Sun</strong> label; he sang lead vocals on the last record ever released on Sun, &quot;<em>Cadillac Man</em>&quot; by <strong>The Jesters</strong>. Starting in about 1965 he began working as a session player in the Memphis studios, joining Charley Freeman, Tommy McClure, and Sammy Creason in the rhythm section that would become know as the <strong>Dixie Flyers</strong>. They went on to be the house band at <strong>Atlantic Records' Criteria Recording Studio</strong> in Miami, Florida in the early '70s, backing artists like Aretha Franklin, <strong>Sam &amp; Dave, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ronnie <img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/dic2.jpg" alt="James Luther Dickinson, Dixie Fried" style="border: 8px solid white;" />Milsap, Kris Kristofferson, Carmen McCrae</strong> and <strong>Maria Muldaur.</strong></div>
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<div>He played piano on the Rolling Stones' classic &quot;<em>Wild Horses</em>&quot; and even appeared in the documentary film of the Stones, <em><strong>Gimme Shelter</strong></em>. Dickinson also played piano on <strong>The Flamin' Groovies</strong> masterpiece <em>Teenage Head</em>. He went on to be Ry Cooder's sidekick; touring, playing keyboards and co-producing some of&nbsp;Cooder&rsquo;s soundtracks such as <em>Paris, Texas, The Long Riders</em>, and <em>Crossroads</em>. Dickinson's career as a producer got kick started working with <strong>Big Star</strong>, the pioneering Memphis power pop band, producing one of the most influential albums from the 1970s, <em><strong>Third/Sister Lovers</strong></em> (<em>NME</em> magazine ranked it #1 as the most heartbreaking album ever recorded). His production work with Big Star led to other gigs, sometimes under the moniker <strong>East Memphis Slim</strong>. In the 1970&rsquo;s and 80&rsquo;s Dickinson produced the likes of <strong>The Replacements </strong>(Dickinson always said he learned more from them than they learned from him), <strong>Jason &amp; the Scorchers, Green on Red, The Radiators, Mojo Nixon, Chris Stamey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Mudhoney, Alex Chilton, Toots Hibbert </strong>(of the Maytals), <strong>The Texas Tornados, Steve Forbert, G. Love &amp; Special Sauce, Joe &quot;King&quot; Carrasco, Flat Duo Jets, Tav Falco</strong>, and many others. As a session musician, he's worked with <strong>Los Lobos, Primal Scream, Poi Dog <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/dic3.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />Pondering, Arlo Guthrie, Willy DeVille, Esther Phillips, Delaney and Bonnie, Petula Clark, Rocket From the Crypt</strong>, and <strong>Bob Dylan</strong> (Dylan acknowledged him as a &ldquo;brother&rdquo; while accepting the Grammy award for 1997&rsquo;s <em><strong>Time Out of Mind</strong></em>, and once said, &quot;If you've got Dickinson, you don't need anybody else.&quot;).</div>
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<div>One of my all-time favorite records is Dickinson's first solo album, released in 1972 on <strong>Atlantic</strong> and entitled <em><strong>Dixie Fried</strong></em>. This soulful yet wonderfully cockeyed, twisted and loopy album has become a cult classic. He dubbed the genre &ldquo;<strong>world boogie</strong>.&rdquo; <em>Dixie Fried</em> was one of those records that disappeared without a trace upon initial release, only to be rediscovered years later. Originally recorded in 1970, the out there in left-field amalgamation of country, R&amp;B, soul, and rock finds Dickinson mostly covering other artist&rsquo;s material, but everything he touches shimmers with that cool and greasy Memphis groove -- probably why Atlantic Records saw it unfit for public consumption for a couple of years. By the time it came out, Dickinson was off touring with Ry Cooder and had no time nor desire to promote the album. Dickinson said that by mid 70&rsquo;s he was seriously hated over at Atlantic records. They tried pushing him out the door, giving him what was referred to as &quot;the Jesse Ed Davis treatment,&quot; or to quote Jerry Wexler, &quot;right down the old pipe, baby.&quot; For years <em>Dixie Fried</em> circulated around the underground, developing a extraordinary following. But as far as Atlantic was concerned, the album&rsquo;s notoriety was surely due to some bizarre bayou voodoo; the label kept its distance. Finally in 2002 it was re-released on CD by <strong>Sepia Tone Records</strong>.</div>
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<div>Last month, Jim Dickinson was relocated to a rehabilitation facility; doctors had hoped for an eventual recovery. His death comes only a week after a benefit concert and tribute was held in Memphis at The Peabody Skyway to raise money for escalating medical bills. Performers at the <strong>benefit</strong> included John Hiatt, Jimmy Davis and the Grammy-nominated <strong>North Mississippi Allstars</strong>, whose members include Dickinson's sons Luther and Cody. Dickinson always understood the enduring power of music and that is mirrored in his epitaph he wrote himself: &ldquo;<em><strong>I&rsquo;m just dead, I&rsquo;m not gone</strong></em>.&rdquo;</div>
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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:02:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/james-luther-dickinson-1941-2009.htmlThe Beatles Pt 2We are kicking off the celebration in honor of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/content/beatles-remastered-amoeba.html">digitally remastered <strong>Beatles</strong> reissues</a> set to hit Amoeba September 9! Each Wednesday until September 2, we will present a segment of The Beatles' biography. Then, the week of September 2-9 will be marked here on the blog with a number of Beatles related posts with a huge variety of topics! You can begin with last week's Part One of the fabled band's history if you missed it by<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/the-beatles-pt-1.html" target="_blank"> clicking right here.</a> Otherwise, we are on to Part Two:<br />
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The rechristened group took a major step towards professionalism in 1960 with the acquisition of Liverpool promoter and club owner <strong>Allan Williams</strong> as their manager. Williams had co-promoted shows with <strong>Larry Parnes</strong>, the powerful, insidious London-based manager of such unlikely-named teen idols as <strong>Billy Fury</strong> and <strong>Tommy Steele</strong>. He arranged an audition for The Silver Beetles (which now included drummer <strong>Tommy Moore</strong>) before Parnes, who hired the group for a tour of Scotland backing one of Parnes&rsquo; lesser charges, the third-tier singer <strong>Johnny Gentle</strong>. They returned from the chaotic spring trek broke and bedraggled, but schooled in the verities of life<img width="400" height="277" align="right" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="beatles hamburg" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/beatles-hamburg-2" /> on the rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll motorway.<br />
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In the summer of 1960, a chance meeting between Williams and a German club owner opened an opportunity for his group &ndash; now permanently known as The Beatles &ndash; to play a run of shows at a venue in Hamburg. Then minus a drummer and desperate for the employment, the band quickly drafted the handsome, diffident son of Casbah owner Mona Best, <strong>Pete Best</strong>, whose band The Blackjacks was in the process of dissolving. In August 1960, the quintet set forth on a fateful ferry voyage to the continent.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Until the other day when I accidentally stumbled upon the <strong>Minutemen</strong>'s excellent video for their equally excellent song &quot;This Ain't No Picnic,&quot; I&nbsp;had forgotten just how great this video was. The song, one of 45 <img align="right" title="1984's Double Nickles On The Dime remains one of the best albums of all time - of any genre" alt="Minutemen Double Nickles On The Dime" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/220px-Doublenickels.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" />brilliant tracks off the SoCal band's flawless, four-sided 1984 release <strong><em>Double Nickles On The Dime</em></strong> (<strong>SST</strong>) -- an album that remains on my top five desert island discs all these years later -- was written reportedly by the late <strong>D. Boon</strong> out of frustration with his narrow minded employer at an auto parts store. <br />
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According to the recommended <strong>Michael Azerrad</strong> penned book<em><strong> Our Band Could Be Your Life:&nbsp;Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991&nbsp;</strong></em><strong>(Little Brown)</strong>, which borrows its title from a <strong>Mike Watt </strong>(Minutemen) lyric, Boon, who was working at this Southern Cali auto parts store, had wanted to choose the music to listen to at his workplace and had flipped to an LA area jazz/soul radio station.&nbsp;However, his boss wouldn't allow him to, reportedly&nbsp; calling the radio station's playlist &quot;nigger shit.&quot; &quot;His&nbsp;[Boon's] frustration fueled a Minutemen classic,&quot; wrote Azerrad in his 2001 book.<br />
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The <strong>Randall Jahnson</strong> directed video for the song (above) may have only cost a meager $600 to make, but regardless it still got some (albeit limted) airplay on <strong>MTV</strong> that year and even managed to be featured in the first ever <strong>VMAs (VIdeo Music Awards</strong>) by MTV the following year. Note that the <strong>Ronald Reagan</strong> (who was president at the time) war film footage was all copyright free to use since it was free public domain content. To have your own copy of this video, pick up the Minutemen documentary <strong><em>We Jam Econo</em></strong> at Amoeba&nbsp;Music, which features it as one of the DVD's bonus features. And, if you don't already own it, I&nbsp;highly recommend you buy the Minutemen's <em>Double Nickles On The Dime</em> album. It's a classic!</div>
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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/this-ain-t-no-picnic-video-minutemen-vs-ronald-reagan.htmlVillanova Junction<div><img align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/jimi.jpg" /><br />
One of my favorite reads in any blog is the unquantifiable absolute statement ... &quot;this is the consummate, best bla bla bla since the invention of sliced bread and Pepto-Bismol...&quot;; well, 40 years ago today, August 18th 1969, the absolutely greatest blues jam ever captured on celluloid, bar none, absolute fact and sure as shit Sherlock-- <strong>Jimi Hendrix</strong> at <strong>Woodstock</strong> and a tiny, minor keyed, mellow and oddly intimate piece, only about three minutes long, so profoundly perfect I don&rsquo;t think such artistry has been witnessed in western civilization since the days of <strong>Johann Sebastian Bach</strong>.</div>
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<div>Hendrix was the headliner at the <strong>Woodstock Music &amp; Art Fair</strong> but didn&rsquo;t hit the stage till after the scheduled festival, Monday morning at dawn. The delay was due to the bad weather and an infinite number of logistical problems. By the time he arrived on stage, the audience, which had peaked at over <strong>500,000 people</strong>, had dwindled to somewhere between 60,000 to 160,000 people, still a hell of a crowd. Hendrix would play a two hour set, the longest of his career. The official, historic, climax of the set was obviously his rendition of the &quot;<strong>The Star-Spangled Banner</strong>,&quot; probably --and here is one of those absolute statements again -- the greatest musical <strong>pyrotechnic blast</strong> of the entire crazed decade of the 1960&rsquo;s, hell, make it the entire second half of the 20th century, life was just never the same after detonation. But as far as I&rsquo;m concerned <strong>the gem</strong> of the whole set, and the last song before the encore, is the Hendrix's free form, breathtakingly beautiful, soulful modal blues, &quot;<strong>Villanova Junction</strong>.&quot; And yes, at times the piece has brought me to tears, what can I say, I tear up easily ... watch and listen.</div>
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Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:46:12 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-17-2009.htmlAMOEBA INSTORE SERIES SHOWCASE JAY REATARD'S LOVE OF PUNK
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Anyone who rushes to write off <strong>Jay Reatard</strong>'s music as unoriginal or derivative of punk's past is missing the whole point of the supertalented, highly profilic artist with a love of Lo-Fi recordings. His anticipated new record <strong><em>Watch Me Fall</em></strong> on<strong> Matador</strong> comes out today and at 6pm today Reatard will play Amoeba Music Hollywood in his first of three Amoeba Music free in-stores. The other two Amoeba parts of Reatard's <strong>Indie Record Store Tour</strong> are Saturday at Amoeba San Francisco and Sunday at Amoeba Berkeley -- both at 6pm.<br />
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Born<strong> Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.</strong>, Memphis, TN's Jay&nbsp;Reatard has long been a huge fan of punk and post <img align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" title="Come on y'all, let's get Reatarded" alt="Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/watch_me_fall_jay_reatard_album.jpg" />punk, especially the type with pop driven chord progressions that you can scream at the top of your lungs along with, as you can tell from listening to his numerous recordings under <strong>The</strong> <strong>Reatards</strong> and other names he has played under. It's like he totally absorbs punk's rich, robust past and spews it out with reinvigorated delight in stage shows that have have become so legendary they have threatened to overshadow the music itself, as mentioned last week in the wonderful <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/jay-reatard-amoeba-instore-tour-.html">Amoeblog Jay Reatard Amoeba Instore Tour post! </a><br />
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But, getting back to Jay Reatard's music, which at once sounds new yet totally familiar to anyone who has been a fan of punk and power pop punk over the years, the artist has said time and again that he has a deep passion for where music has come from and is merely putting his spin on it. Most recently, in an interview with <strong>Mike Rubin</strong> published two days ago in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/arts/music/16rubi.html?scp=1&amp;sq=%22still%20punk%20but%20beyond%20tantrums%22&amp;st=cse"><em>New York Times</em></a><em>,</em> Reatard summed it up best when he said, &quot;The whole concept for me behind pop music is to take your influences and filter them through yourself, and then they become something new. I&rsquo;m not trying to move forward and create territory that hasn&rsquo;t been mined before, I&rsquo;m just trying to do my version of something that I like.&rdquo;<br />
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4. <strong>Eydie Gorme Y Los Panchos</strong>- <em>Cantan En Espa&ntilde;ol</em><br />
5. <strong>Manu Chao</strong>- <em>Clandestino</em><br />
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7. <strong>Juan Son</strong>- <em>Mermaid Sashimi</em><br />
8. <strong>Fangoria</strong>- <em>Absolutamente</em><br />
9. <strong>Hombres G</strong> - <em>Los Singles 1985-2005</em><br />
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Every week, I look into new release books supplied by the four Latin majors for new releases. Some, like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/juansonmusic">Juan Son</a> and the new <a href="http://www.natalialafourcade.com">Natalia LaFourcade</a>, are currently out in Latin America only. Instead of seeing those aforementioned artists in the new release books, I usually see the same type of releases. It&rsquo;s either a set of repackaged titles by the same artists, or worse, a cheap two artists on one CD with only ten songs on it. Turn the pages and you see a slew of unknown pop singers who are either the son or daughter of a famous singer, the child of a record industry head or the mistress of a record industry head. I&rsquo;m telling you, I have smacked my hand against my head in disgust so many times<img align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white; width: 254px; height: 352px;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Gomez/juanson.jpg" /> I think I have a permanent palm mark on my forehead.<br />
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So, how do I get the new Juan Son to Amoeba Music Hollywood? I had to get someone to smuggle some across the border! <em>Mermaid Sashimi </em>debuts at number seven and in getting the small amount of imports that I got, word is spreading fast. Much like <a href="http://www.zoetheband.com">Zoe</a>&rsquo;s <em>Reptilectric</em> before it was released in the states, <em>Mermaid Sashimi</em> is selling by Internet buzz and plain old word of mouth.<br />
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So I use to run this illegal bar, a <strong>speakeasy</strong>, and the specialty of the house was your traditional Vodka or Gin <strong>martini</strong> -- straight up, a couple of olives or a tiny pickled onion or a sliver of a lemon peel, no frills but a damn, damn good martini and never, ever a frigging apple pomegranate fusion monstrosity.</div>
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<div>Anyway, the best part of the night was always after hours, around 4 or 4:30 in the morning. At that hour it was always quiet, I was relaxed, the patrons were relaxed, folks just sat around -- the trouble of the day or week was behind them, the stress of trying to get laid had more or less strayed, at least momentarily, though sex springs eternal and with the new dawn you<img height="200" align="right" width="200" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/blu1.jpg" alt="" /> knew at least one fresh scheme would soon ascend, prospectively. The soul, body and mind, conceivably worn to the bone, inevitably found a re-energized oomph in a good drunken conversation over one last martini. I loved the pretension almost as much as I loved that time of the day. And the perfect music to play at that hour was always, always <strong>Miles Davis</strong>&rsquo; <em><strong>Kind of Blue</strong></em>.</div>
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<div>Well, 50 years ago today, August 17, 1959, <em>Kind of Blue</em> was released on <strong>Columbia Records</strong>, in both mono and stereo, catalogue number CL-1355. The recording sessions took place earlier in the year in New York City, on March 2 and April 22, and featured soon to be legends all: Miles Davis on trumpet, pianists <strong>Bill Evans</strong> and <strong>Wynton Kelly</strong>, and <strong>John Coltrane</strong> and <strong>Cannonball Adderley</strong> on saxophones, with drummer <strong>Jimmy Cobb</strong> and bassist <strong>Paul Ch</strong><img align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/blu2.jpg" /><strong>ambers.</strong></div>
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<div>So cool, so beautiful, so perfect, contemplative, sleek and sophisticated. <em>Kind of Blue</em> soars into uncharted space; five decades ago it stretched the boundaries and the very definition of jazz. Davis&rsquo;, along with arranger <strong>Gil Evans</strong>&rsquo; modal experimentations abandoned the traditional song concept of chord changes to support a melody in favor of musical scales, re-inventing improvisation and a sound that would dominate the form of jazz for rest of the century. And though exact numbers have never quite been formulated, <em>Kind of Blue</em> has been cited as the best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified <strong>quadruple platinum</strong>. But beyond numbers, <em>Kind of Blue</em> is regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Miles Davis's <strong>masterpiece</strong>.</div>
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I invite you to rewind two full decades, back twenty summers ago to the summer of 1989 when the hottest movie with the hottest soundtrack was <strong>Spike Lee</strong>'s film <strong><em>Do The Right Thing </em></strong>featuring <strong>Public Enemy</strong>'s &quot;Fight The Power.&quot; It debuted in theaters that summer and caused some controversy at the time for its <img width="400" height="218" align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="do the right thing" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/do-the-right-thing" />no- holds-barred portrayal of ethnic and racial tensions in the multi-ethnic (Black, Puerto Rican, Italian, Korean, white) New York borough in which the film was set. <br />
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<em>Do The Right Thing</em> (Lee's fourth movie) was written, produced, and directed by the ATL born, Brooklyn raised filmmaker who also acts in the film (he plays <strong>Mookie</strong>). The highly recommended film, available on DVD at Amoeba Music, is set on the hottest day of the year (kind of like the weather in NYC this week, with humid highs in the mid 90's) on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) section of Brooklyn. That day, the flames of everyone's emotions and prejudices are fanned and fanned until they finally explode into violence. The film makes the strong point that violence -- no matter how tempting to those being oppressed -- really doesn't offer any long term solutions to the problems at hand. <br />
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With a solid story line and a strong cast that includes <strong>Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L Jackson</strong> (he plays the DJ at end of the &quot;race rant&quot; scene in clip above), <strong>Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence</strong>, and <strong>Rosie Perez </strong>(the latter two making their big screen debuts), the film struck a nerve with both critics and film-goers. It was a box office success and remains one of Lee's best movies to date. Ten years ago the <strong>United States Library of Congress</strong> deemed the film to be &quot;culturally significant&quot; and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. <br />
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Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:37:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/do-the-right-thing-20-summers-later.html12" Electronic Releases at Amoeba Hollywood - 08/21/09<div style="text-align: center;"></div>
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New from EMOTICON, JEFF SAMUEL drops the BPM to make some laid back beats that fall neatly between IDM and downtempo. Crisp, metallic infused beats hold it down next to intricate strands of melody.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 Fingers&nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">REIS E PIRATAS</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 12&quot; SSD-ICP144&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">2 Wikked&nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">BREAKZ</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 12&quot; FGW002&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-21-09.html">Continue reading...</a></div></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-21-09.html
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:17:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-21-09.html(In which... POOF!)<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/2952097249_be30e1dc4a-1.jpg" /></div>
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I realize that I, all too often, leave you feeling jealous and unfulfilled after reading my blogs. You learn about my <a href="http://www.thoughtworm.com/Images/janitor.jpg">glamorous, jet-set, Hollywood</a> lifestyle and come away asking yourself:<br />
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<em>&ldquo;Why can&rsquo;t my life be more like Job&rsquo;s?&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;How come the Gyllenhaals always attend his Scrabble night, but never mine?&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;What&rsquo;s that claw-like black thing headed towards my face?&rdquo;</em><br />
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IT&rsquo;S A MONKEY&rsquo;S PAW AND IT&rsquo;S CURSED SO </strong><em><strong>DUCK!!!<br />
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Phew! Well, now that I&rsquo;ve saved your life from an eternal damnation of sorts, maybe now you&rsquo;ll be a little forgiving that I once again have a story of rad proportions to share with you.<br />
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One of my fellow Amoebites* &ndash; we&rsquo;ll call him <a href="http://z.about.com/d/gopuertorico/1/0/o/2/-/-/erik_estrada.jpg"><strong>Erik Estrada</strong></a> from the TV show <strong><em>Chips</em></strong> in order to protect his identity &ndash; is currently a pupil at the world-famous <a href="http://www.magiccastle.com/"><strong>Magic Castle</strong></a>, located in the heart of Hollywood.<br />
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For those of you who&rsquo;ve never heard of the Magic Castle, here&rsquo;s a brief history lesson. (If you already know this material, feel free to skip ahead to the part where <strong>Courtney Love</strong> threatens to slit my throat open with a ventriloquist dummy.)<br />
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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:41:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-poof-.htmlDepeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl August 16th 2009<br />http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/depeche-mode-hollywood-bowl-august-16th-2009.html
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:30 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/depeche-mode-hollywood-bowl-august-16th-2009.htmlNo Atheists in the Afterlife? Thirst (2009)<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/thirst-poster.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="450" height="666" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/thirst-poster.jpg" alt="thirst poster" style="border: 5px solid white;" /><br />
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A fantastic adaptation of <strong>&Eacute;mile Zola</strong>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Raquin#Plot_summary" target="_blank"><em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em></a>. Not that I've ever read any Zola, mind you, but I've read about him. Maybe after I've finished working my way through the entire output of the 19th century Russian realists, I'll be ready. If only Zola had featured more vampires in his stories .... Well, <strong>Chan-Wook Park</strong> knows how to get me interested in realism, at least -- same as the Russians -- with ideological discussions of atheism.<br />
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Sang-hyeon is a Catholic priest with a martyr complex or strong death drive (amounts to the same thing, I suppose), who plays guinea pig in a macabre experiment to help doctors find a cure for a virus that's particularly dangerous to Korean men. He's the only one to survive the voluntary infection, due to a&nbsp; transfusion using vampire blood. The catch is that he now needs to feed on normal human blood to keep from sweating his own and breaking out in disfiguring boils. Initially, he's racked by guilt over his bodily urges, which leads to his sucking on a comatose patient's IV and a fellow priest, Noh, who has a more sanguine attitude about the vampire virus. Sang-hyeon sees vampirism as a loss of humanity, whereas Noh sees it as a gift, and a potential cure for his blindness. Due to his miracle cure, the vampire picks up a religious following of Catholics who see him as another messiah, parallel to that other popular tale of transfiguration. Is he a vampire who walks like a man, or man who acts like a vampire?</div>
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Despite the similarities, <em>Thirst</em> doesn't belong to the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5795KE20090810" target="_blank">&quot;vegetarian&quot; vampirism</a> that <strong><em>Buffy</em></strong> made popular and can now be seen in<strong> <em>Twilight</em>.</strong> It was easy to sympathize with Buffy's beau, because when Angel did evil deeds, it was as the soulless Angelus, who constituted a separate <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/#WidIss" target="_blank">identity</a> (even if the two entities shared the same body and memories, they certainly had no control over what the other did). There's no identity switcheroo in <em>Twilight</em>, but the good vampire Edward is able to survive on animal blood (see '<a href="http://foreverknight.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Carouche_Vampires" target="_blank">carouche</a>'). Angel was capable of that, too, having lived on rats for many years after regaining his soul. Furthermore, the two diegeses share a supernaturally enforced Victorian restraint, since the vampires get real thirsty for their lovers when sex is involved. Taking blood and sex out of the equation pretty much makes hash out of vampires, since they're reduced to a more pathetic version of us, but with superpowers. Instead, Park's film is closer in its themes to another vampire show that sometimes gets lumped into the vegetarian subgenre, <strong><em>True Blood</em>.</strong></div>
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Maybe because it's on HBO or because it's not written by a Mormon, but <em>True Blood</em> manages to defang the mythology without violating it (although the hamfisted erotic dialog comes close). Here vampires keep their sanguinary sexual desires, are responsible for previous slaughters, and have to choose to live off of synthetic human blood (like only shopping the frozen food aisle). Making a somewhat analogous case to <strong>Peter Singer</strong>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer#Animal_Liberation" target="_blank">animal rights argument</a>, Southern gentleman/-vampire Bill Compton has come to view humans as deserving of the same rights as his own kind, since we're capable of the same feelings as he, if not moreso. Whereas <em>True Blood</em>'s moral questioning is basically <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ClaUti" target="_blank">utilitarian</a>, <em>Thirst</em>'s is <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/#HebBibNewTes" target="_blank">faith-based</a>. The divine image has been transmogrified into a distorted mirror, so is Sang-hyeon still obligated to God's favored creature? If the vampire is nothing more than pure carnality, then its moral status is that of all the other animals not given the lead in the story of Eden. Scorpions aren't being immoral when they strike.</div>
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<em>Thirst</em>'s vampiric version of the 19th century nihilist is Tae-joo, an orphaned girl who came under the care of the domineering Lady Ra and her spoiled, sickly boy, Kang-woo. Rather than being raised as the boy's adopted sister, Tae-joo became his caretaker and wife. Sang-hyeon was a childhood friend to the family and, post-transformation, meets up with them again when Ra comes begging for a miracle to cure her son. Between games of mah-jongg with the family and friends, the priest and the wife begin to slip away for bouts of hedonism that's erotic in a way the metalhead couple making out in a mall could appreciate. Based on how she grew up, Tae-joo doesn't see much that's special in humanity, so wants nothing more than to leave it all behind by being turned. After a series of sinful events, including the plan to kill Kang-woo, Sang-hyeon grants her the salvation she desires. That's when he discovers that some vampires are more Darwinian than others. She's pure survival-of-the-fittest with nothing filling up the hole of faith. Humans are reduced to the status of actors -- that is, cattle -- and she's the only director that matters. Feeling himself drawn to the abyss, with his monstrous status of being nothing but an animal, only with the ungodly power to upset the divine heirarchy, Sang-hyeon can see no other moral choice than self-immolation -- and, thus, the movie's central conflict. Obviously, the couple hasn't read much utilitarianism or other atheistic moral philosophies. They might've discovered with Bill that there's more of a connection to humanity than the forced choice between nihilism and theistic middle-management allows.</div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/no-atheists-in-the-afterlife-thirst-2009-.html
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:30:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/no-atheists-in-the-afterlife-thirst-2009-.htmlAugust 16, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/brunoticket.jpg" alt="Bruno movie ticket stub Fairfax Cinemas" /><br />
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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:35:27 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-16-2009.htmlDistrict 9 Movie Review
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I will admit, I was very wary of seeing <em><strong>District 9</strong></em> for a variety of reasons. For one, my exposure to <strong>South African films</strong> had led me to the conclusion that the South African film industry is the worst in Africa. Armed with relatively large budgets, South African films seemed technically solid but at best, soulless and at worst, odious. On a continent where countries like <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/senegal/page1.html"><strong>Senegal</strong></a>, <a href="https://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/02/eric-s-blog/cinema-of-burkina-faso.html"><strong>Burkina Faso </strong></a>and <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2008/12/eric-s-blog/cinema-of-mali.html"><strong>Mali</strong></a> make amazing, artistic and entertaining films with a uniquely African voice, why would I want to see another glossy piece of crap from what seems like an ersatz <strong>Hollywood</strong>? <em><strong>Critical Assignment</strong></em> was one long and comically awful <strong>Guinness </strong>ad, <em><strong>Boesman and Lena</strong></em> an unwatchable minstrel show, <em><strong>Stander </strong></em>stultifying bland, <strong><em>Wooden Camera</em></strong> a ponderous examination of racial politics, and <em><strong>The Gods Must Be Crazy</strong></em> (I &amp; II) ponderously racist. When <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/movies/movies-we-like/2008/02/tiffany-s-tales/tsotsi.html"><em><strong>Tsotsi</strong></em></a> was praised by the Academy, I wrote it off without giving it a chance. Only Richard Stanley's <em><strong>Hardware</strong></em> and <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/movies/movies-we-like/2008/12/sundry-articles/dust-devil-the-final-cut.html"><em><strong>Dust Devil </strong></em></a>did much for me. Also, I find South African accents (and all non-rhotic accents) rather unpleasant.<br />
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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:53:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/district-9-movie-review.htmlLEMME GUESS: "I'M A CLIENT"<div style="text-align: left;">The trailer for <strong>Martin Scorsese</strong>'s new film reminds me of the &quot;twist&quot; contained in the one for <em>Sixth Sense</em>:</div>
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I hope he's just leading those of us who see too many movies down the garden path, but <em>Goodfellas</em> was a long time ago. Still, I can watch <strong>Mark Ruffalo</strong> in just about anything; he's the cat's pajamas!</div>
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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:34:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/lemme-guess-i-m-a-client-.htmlREST IN POWER MIKE DREAM FRANCISCO - 40th BIRTHDAY<div style="text-align: center;">
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<strong>Mike &quot;DREAM&quot;&nbsp;Francisco 1993 interview @&nbsp;No&nbsp;Justice,&nbsp;No Peace<em> </em>art opening</strong></div>
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</strong>Exactly forty years ago today, August 15th 1969,<strong> Mike &quot;DREAM&quot; Francisco </strong>was born. But instead of what should have been a landmark birthday celebration today, this August 15th is just another sad reminder to those loved ones and friends and fans of the late, great Bay Area graffiti artist of how Mike &quot;DREAM&quot; Francisco&#39;s life was prematurely, senselessly halted nine years ago. On February 17th, 2000 on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, DREAM was gunned down and killed, the victim of a random street robbery.&nbsp; <img align="right" alt="Mike DREAM Francisco " height="243" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/DREAMwall.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" title="King Dream Rip TDK Dream wall East Oakland Graffiti Art" width="440" /><br />
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Not only was DREAM&nbsp;(or &quot;King Dream,&quot; as he is referred to by many) a gifted and prolific artist, with a passion for hip-hop -- having collaborated with countless hip-hoppers, including <strong>Hobo Junction </strong>over the years -- but he was also a most outspoken individual, one concerned about his community, and one never afraid to speak out against the ills of society.<br />
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Had DREAM been allowed to live today, you can bet he would have been at the front of the protests against the murder of <strong>Oscar Grant</strong> by<strong> BART</strong> police earlier this year. In fact, in 1993 he was one of the featured artists in the anti police brutality show <strong>No Justice, No Peace</strong> at downtown Oakland&#39;s <strong>Pro Arts Gallery</strong>. Above is a rare interview with DREAM at the opening of that show by <strong>A Debonair Affair&#39;</strong>s <strong>Melinda Bell</strong> which, despite the poor audio quality, gives you a great insight into the kind of person DREAM was: down-to-earth, fun, &amp; witty, but also most passionate about his beliefs. I first met DREAM around 1990 and was instantly struck by what a genuinely good spirited and generous person he was, always upbeat and interested in what others had to say. But what is perhaps most profound about the DREAM&nbsp;interview above is how he defines what &quot;reality&quot; means to some people, like himself, as&nbsp; &quot;to brothers like us reality is watching people die on the streets everyday!&quot;<br />
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:55:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/rest-in-power-mike-dream-francisco-40th-birthday.htmlBollywood Cover Gallery 2<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/bollywood 2/1 vip films.jpg" target="_blank"><br />
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A continuation of <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/bollywood-cover-gallery-1.html" target="_blank">yesterday&#39;s</a> theme, I&#39;ve decided to include a clip from the film <em><strong>Kranti,</strong></em> as the movie deals with the beginnings of the <strong>Indian</strong> struggle for independence from colonial rule. Yeah, nationalism is a main theme in <strong>Bollywood</strong> film, but <em>Kranti </em>is especially inspired. Enjoy!<br />
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:40:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/bollywood-cover-gallery-2.htmlNew Electronic CD Releases 8/14/09<img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Oliver_and_Boone/3000.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><br />
<strong>DREHER &amp; SMART</strong><br />
<em>Wandertag</em><br />
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&quot;There is for sure no lack of electronic music producers in the German capital, but in contrast to most of their colleagues, <strong>Dreher &amp; Smart</strong> were really born in Berlin, which becomes obvious already after the first verbal exchange. In the beginning of February they left their urban sphere and headed towards day. Through snow-covered forests and past frozen lakes, they finally arrived at the cozy Dacha on the ground of Fusion festival where the <strong>Fortschritt3000</strong> crew welcomed them very heartily. Little by little, more and more guests arrived and the evening became more and more frisky and social. And so, Dreher &amp; Smart soon unpacked their music machines and serenaded the audience. They set all the experiences from their eventful day to music and so also the recording became very entertaining and exciting. On a continuously forcing groove, varied sound constructions unfold, which lead from trippy-minimal deepness over hypnotic melodies and through huge reverb rooms to distinctive percussive take offs. The unobtrusive reactions from the dance floor mixed into confer <em>Wandertag</em> its authentic live atmosphere and increase the anyhow very strong pressure of this recording.&quot; - 3000&#730;<br />
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Relocated from Wales to Jena, Germany, <strong>Ian Simmonds</strong> (aka Juryman) is responsible for pure innovation on the electronic scene. He left London in 2005 and began a new chapter in the East German province of scenic Jena in Thuringia, recording <em>The Burgenland Dubs </em>in the old Castle Wendelstein in the middle of the vineyard region in Unstrut Valley in Burgenland Saxony-Anhalt. Working in an environment with faulty heating, rotting old windows, and two hard winters that set ice crystals in his beard, Simmonds toiled in his castle like a sorcerer in his spiritual craft, revealing an album filled with maritime dimensions, rhythmic, lyrical moments, dramatic beat wizardry, and orchestral presence. This album also demonstrates a swinging, acoustic flight of traditional instrumentation paired with modern electric sonic culture. He also doesn't shy away from soul and jazz, and possesses a smooth British breakstep sense and even the depths and straight lines from Detroit. His sound began on the bass with the extraordinary combo, Sandals (1992-1994), whose proliferation anticipated British-isle club innovation. As Juryman, Simmonds began to merge modern music with traditional. From there came unbeatable productions in the form of 12&quot; remixes, albums on renowned labels like <strong>SSR</strong>, <strong>Ntone</strong>, <strong>Studio-K7</strong>!, <strong>Pussyfoot</strong>, <strong>G-Stone</strong>,<strong> Compost</strong>, and more. <em>The Burgenland Dubs </em>is pure beat-fiddling sound research plus orchestral radiance and moving, warm peak-time brush-strokes for the home or club.<br />
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:47:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/new-electronic-cd-releases-8-14-09.htmlJay Reatard Amoeba Instore Tour!<div style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" alt="jay reatard" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/jay-reatard" /></div>
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Join us for <strong>Jay Reatard</strong>'s Indie Record Store Tour! He will be appearing at all THREE&nbsp;Amoeba stores next week!<br />
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Hollywood - Tuesday, August 18 6pm<br />
San Francisco - Saturday, August 22 6pm<br />
Berkeley - Sunday, August 23 6pm<br />
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These appearances are in support of his new record <strong><em>Watch Me Fall</em></strong>, out August 18th! Also, get a limited edition silkscreen poster designed by Jay with purchase of <em>Watch Me Fall,</em> on the day of the in-store only<img width="350" align="right" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="watch me fall jay reatard" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/watch-me-fall-jay-reatard" /> and while supplies last! <br />
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&ldquo;It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.&rdquo;&nbsp; -<em> </em>Jay Reatard
<p class="mainbr">As we approach the August 18, 2009 release of <em>Watch Me Fall,</em> Jay Reatard&rsquo;s 90-somethingeth release since dropping out of 8th grade to pursue this game, you might ask, who is this guy?</p>
<p class="mainbr">In the late 90s, 15-year-old Jay Lindsey, living right outside Memphis, played all of the instruments on a demo tape by his newly-minted performing moniker of &ldquo;The Reatards.&rdquo; This cassette was sent to Eric Friedl of the Oblivians, who had used the &ldquo;Goner Records&rdquo; imprint on a couple of releases. His next would be a 7&rdquo; by The Reatards, followed shortly by a full-length LP, <strong><em>Teenage Hate</em></strong> (Goner, 1998). Remembers Jay:</p>
<p class="mainbr"><em>&ldquo;I read an article in </em>Spin<em> about &lsquo;The Lo-Fi Revolution&rsquo; in the mid-90s, and I kept seeing &lsquo;Four-Track&rsquo; &lsquo;Four-Track&rsquo; &lsquo;Four-Track&rsquo;&hellip;.and I didn&rsquo;t know what one was, but I figured out that it was what all of those bands, Sebadoh, Guided By Voices, used to record their records. Before the internet, it was really hard trying to figure out what one cost, or how to find one in the first place, but I finally got one for Christmas. Before that, I recorded by using a karaoke machine with two tape decks hooked up to it.&rdquo;</em><img width="250" height="250" align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="reatards get up fucked up" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/reatards-grown-up-fucked-up" /></p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/jay-reatard-amoeba-instore-tour-.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/jay-reatard-amoeba-instore-tour-.html
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:29:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/jay-reatard-amoeba-instore-tour-.htmlBollywood Cover Gallery 1I've been sitting on this collection of <strong>Bollywood</strong> soundtrack covers for some time now and I figured that <strong>India's Independence Day</strong> would be a great time to launch the gallery. Bollywood soundtracks are always a great listen; my experience is that even the more average LP will have moments of brillance. The cover art is usually quite intriguing, even if on some it's just the fontage used for the titles. I've included some stellar youtube footage from a few of the featured movies.<br />
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:50:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/bollywood-cover-gallery-1.htmlAMOEBA MUSIC WEEKLY HIP-HOP ROUND UP: 08:14:09<div style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>Amoeba Music Berkeley Hip-Hop Top Five: 08:14:09<br />
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1) <strong>Mos Def </strong><em>The Ecstatic</em> (Downtown)<br />
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2) <strong>Chali 2na </strong><em>Fish Outta Water</em>&nbsp;(Decon)<br />
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3) <strong>DOOM</strong> <em>Born Like This</em> (Lex Records)<br />
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4) <strong>Cage </strong><em>Depart From Me</em> (Def Jux)<br />
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5)<strong> </strong><strong>Wu Tang</strong> <em>Chamber Music</em> (KR&nbsp;Urban/KOCH)<br />
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At the Berkeley Amoeba Music store this week the top selling albums are all ones that have been out for a few weeks or more but that are proving to be staples for the Summer of '09. Charting records include the latest releases from <strong>Mos&nbsp;Def, Wu-Tang</strong>, and <strong>Chali 2na,</strong> as well as <strong>DOOM</strong>'s (aka <strong>MF&nbsp;Doom</strong>) recent <strong><em>Born Like This</em></strong> and <strong>Cage</strong>'s <strong><em>Depart From Me,</em></strong> both of which are incidentally on <strong>Definitive Jux</strong> (aka <strong>Def Jux</strong>), the label co-founded by <strong>El-P</strong> that seemingly can do no wrong as it steadily builds a catalog of quality, lasting hip-hop in an era of the genre when there is so much clutter elsewhere. <br />
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The <strong>OM 15</strong> party is tonight! San Francisco based <a href="http://www.om-records.com/"><strong>OM Records</strong></a> will be celebrating 15 successful years with a big show at the <a href="http://www.mezzaninesf.com/calendar.asp">Mezzanine</a> this eve (Friday, August 14) with <strong>Mark Farina, J Boogie, Whooligan </strong>and others. I just caught The&nbsp;Whooligan at the same venue a week ago when he was performing with<strong> 40 Love</strong> during the wonderful <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoebapalooza-2009-mezzanine-sf-was-fun-fun-fun.html"><strong>Amoebapalooza 2009</strong></a>. <br />
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:34:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoeba-music-weekly-hip-hop-round-up-08-14-09.htmlGhostbusters at 25<div><img height="201" align="left" width="200" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/gho1.jpg" /><br />
How the hell can <em><strong>Ghostbusters</strong></em> be <strong>25 years old</strong>? I remember the first time I watched it, and I don&rsquo;t think I was in grammar school ... shit, I&rsquo;m getting old ...</div>
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<div>Starting today, in honor of its silver anniversary, <strong>YouTube</strong> is hosting a weeklong showing of <strong>Sony</strong>'s spooky comedy classic, <em>Ghostbusters</em>, starring <strong>Bill Murray</strong>, <strong>Dan Aykroyd</strong>, <strong>Harold Ramis</strong>, <strong>Ernie Hudson</strong>, <strong>Sigourney Weaver</strong>, <strong>Rick Moranis</strong>, and <strong>Annie Potts</strong>.</div>
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<div>The weirdest thing about this whole showing, is that even though the film will be playing for seven days on Youtube, technically it will be not be in your YouTube player. It will instead be deposited by way of Sony's Crackle playe<img align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/gho2.jpg" />r, which will then be embedded on Youtube. Sounds like a publicity stunt to me-- somebody&rsquo;s making some cash off of this unholy union. Oddly enough, I might just be right for a change; rumor has it that Sony is currently developing a <em><strong>Ghostbusters 3</strong></em> for a 2012 release. Spengler, Stantz, Venkman, and Zeddemore! ... I just hope it's better than the sequel, and I hope to hell all the original actors return. Who are you going to call but the original crew ... in fact I&rsquo;ll take it a step further, I want <strong>Larry King</strong>, <strong>Joe Franklin</strong> and <strong>Casey Kasem</strong> making cameos again.</div>
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<div><em>Ghostbusters</em> on YouTube will appear in a 16x9 aspect ratio at &quot;high quality&quot; resolution (as opposed to YouTube's HD player) and it will feature as many as eight in-stream commercials. <strong>Enjoy!</strong></div>
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:23:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/ghostbusters-at-25.htmlHalloween II (1981) Saturday at the New Beverly <img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/content/new-beverly/myspace-logo.jpg" />
<p><font size="+1">Amoeba Music and Phil Blankenship are proud to present some of our film favorites at Los Angeles&rsquo; last full-time revival movie theater. See movies the way they're meant to be seen - on the big screen and with an audience!</font></p>
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<p><font size="+1">Ryan Rotten &amp; Phil Blankenship present Midnight Shock!<br />
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<font size="+1"><u>Saturday August 15</u><br />
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The Original (1981)</font><br />
<font size="+3">Halloween II</font><br />
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New Beverly Cinema<br />
7165 W Beverly Blvd<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90036 <br />
11:59pm, All Tickets $7<br />
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Director Rick Rosenthal, actress Gloria Gifford and composer Alan Howarth will appear IN PERSON, schedules permitting, to discuss the film!<br />
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<p><font size="+1"><u>August</u></font><br />
<font size="+1">August 28 &amp; 29 Evil Dead Marathon</font><br />
All Tickets $10. One Ticket Admits You To All Three Films!</p>
<p><font size="+1">The Evil Dead (1981)</font> 7:30pm<br />
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:37:14 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/halloween-ii-1981-saturday-at-the-new-beverly-.htmlR.I.P. LES PAUL<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Les Paul with Chet Atkins </strong></div>
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Guitar legend <strong>Les Paul</strong> died today at age 94, the result of complications of severe pneumonia, according to several sources, including the<strong> </strong><em><strong>New York&nbsp;Times</strong></em> and <strong>Associated Press</strong>. Read <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBD78k8tewQ7FPeiKtJbK8QPmtzAD9A23OFG0">AP's full obit here</a> of the artist who gave his name to the<strong> Gibson</strong> manufactured <strong>Les Paul</strong> guitar. According to one source, the artist, who had been playing regularly up to the time of his death, was until recently holding down a standing gig, despite the fact he was in his nineties, at New York's <strong>Iridium Jazz Club</strong>.&nbsp;Now that's dedication to music! Below and above are some video clips of the guitar legend.&nbsp;R.I.P. Les Paul.<br />
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:50:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/r-i-p-les-paul.htmlLEGENDARY JAZZ DRUMMER RASHIED ALI PASSES<img align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/rashied_ali.jpg" alt="Rashied Ali" /><br />
According to several sources, including <a href="http://www.citizenjazz.com">citizenjazz.com</a>, legendary jazz drummer <strong>Rashied Ali</strong>, who was one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, died yesterday at age 74. The cause of Ali's death has not yet been announced, but the artist, who did some great recordings with <strong>John Coltrane</strong>, had been active in his craft up until recently, playing with his own group, the Rashied Ali Quintet. A few years ago they recorded the double CD <em>Judgment Day.</em><br />
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As well as working with Coltrane, the drummer had also recorded or performed with such artists as <strong>Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Arthur Rhames</strong> and <strong>James Blood Ulmer</strong>. As jazz legend has it, Ali was supposed to be the second drumme on John Coltrane&rsquo;s 1965 landmark free jazz album <em><strong>Ascension</strong></em> in tandem with drummer <strong>Elvin Jones</strong>, but at the last minute he dropped out. Coltrane decided to scrap the two drummer scenario and proceeded to record with just Jones on percussion.&nbsp; <strong><img align="right" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/ColtraneMeditationsCover.jpg" alt="meditations coltrane" /></strong><br />
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Soon after, however, Ali began to record with Coltrane. Along with Pharoah Sanders, he is a featured artist on the avant garde Coltrane album <em>Meditations.</em> Ali's other Coltrane collaborations included <em>Interstellar Space</em> in 1967 and <em>The Olatunji Concert </em>-- one of Coltrane's later recordings.&nbsp; <br />
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A few decades ago he ran the club <strong>Ali's Alley</strong> in New York. He also worked outside of jazz music from time to time, forming the <strong>Purple Trap</strong> project with Japanese experimental guitarist <strong>Keiji Haino</strong> and jazz-fusion bassist <strong>Bill Laswell.</strong> Additionally, he made contributions to experimental, multi-media performances with such groups as<strong> The Gift of Eagle Orchestra </strong>and <strong>Cosmic Legends</strong>, and was part of a special tribute to <strong>John Cage</strong> in Central Park. Below is a video of the late drummer along with <strong>Don Cherry </strong>(pocket trumpet)&nbsp;and James Blood Ulmer (guitar) in concert along with voiceover commentary on the three great improv jazz artists.<br />
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/legendary-jazz-drummer-rashied-ali-passes.htmlA Horrible Month I can't believe what an amazing month it is for horror fans in <strong>Los Angeles</strong>! Here's a list of the films that the local rep theaters are showing over the next couple of weeks.<br />
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.newbevcinema.com/">New Bev</a></strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newbevcinema.com/"><strong>erly</strong> <strong>Cinema</strong></a><br />
7165 Beverly Blvd <br />
Los Angeles, CA 90036-2548 <br />
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-August 14th <strong><em>Count Yorga, Vampire</em></strong><em> </em>&amp; <strong><em>The Lost Boys</em> </strong><br />
midnite movie- <strong><em>Midnight Son</em></strong><br />
-August 15th <strong><em>Velvet Vampire</em> </strong>&amp;<strong> <em>The Hunger</em> </strong><br />
midnite movie-<strong><em>Halloween II</em></strong> ('81 orig)<br />
-August 18th<strong><em> Patrick</em> </strong>&amp; <strong><em>Harlequin</em></strong><br />
-August 28th &amp; 29th <strong><em>Evil Dead</em></strong> trilogy<br />
-Sept 5th midnite movie- the <strong><em>Entity</em></strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.arttheatrelongbeach.com/"><strong>Art Theatre</strong></a><br />
2025 E 4th St<br />
Long Beach, CA 90814-1001<br />
(562) 438-5435<br />
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-August 14th <em><strong>Sick Girl</strong></em><br />
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</strong><a href="http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Theatre</strong></a><br />
1328 Montana Ave<br />
Santa Monica, CA 90403-1710<br />
(310) 260-1528<br />
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:40:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/a-horrible-month-.htmlAugust 12, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/transformers2ticket.jpg" alt="Transformers 2 movie ticket stub" /><br />
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:04:27 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-12-2009.htmlRemembering Lenny Breau<div><img align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/len11.jpg" /><br />
As far as I am concerned, <strong>Lenny Breau</strong> is arguably the <strong>greatest guitarist</strong> that ever strummed a chord on this goddamned sweet earth, and yet outside the guitar playing world his name remains virtually unknown. Several years ago I was gigging in Vancouver B.C., Canada and someone asked me who were my favorite guitarists. I mentioned Lenny Breau. I obviously answered correctly; for the next couple of days I had my pick of booze and food aplenty. Though Breau was born in Auburn, Maine, in 1941, he was raised in Canada. His family settled in Manitoba in 1957 and he always remained very connected to his adopted home country. His parents, Hal &quot;Lone Pine&quot; Breau and Betty Cody, were country &amp; western performers active as both a touring and a recording act from the mid 1940's into the late 1950's. Breau&rsquo;s first professional gigs were with the family act until he was about 15 or 16, when one night his father slapped him on stage for improvising.</div>
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<div>Lenny Breau's phenomenal technique was a combination of his close study of his idol <strong>Chet Atkins</strong>, adapting Atkins' picking style of playing bass lines with a thumb pick and with his other fingers adding melody lines -- he was able to sound like two guitarists playing simultaneously -- and his harmonic sensibilities, predominantly influenced by legendary pianist <strong>Bill Evans</strong>. Along with significant classical, <img align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/len2-1.jpg" />modal, and flamenco elements, not to mention his extraordinary right hand independence and his unique use of artificial harmonics, no one sounded like Lenny Breau.</div>
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<div>25 years ago today, <strong>Aug. 12, 1984</strong>, Lenny Breau was found dead in the rooftop swimming pool of his apartment building in Los Angeles. He was 43 years old. During his lifetime Lenny Breau had a long struggle with drugs, especially with heroin, amphetamines and alcohol, something left over from his days on the Toronto jazz scene, but at the time of his death Breau had reportedly managed to take some control of his addictions. On that Sunday, his wife, Jewel Breau, an occasional singer born Joanne Glasscock, claimed that he had accidentally drowned, but an autopsy determined that he had actually been strangled and then dumped in the pool. The Los Angeles Police Department never had enough evidence to bring charges against her or anyone else, but in a 1999 Canadian documentary, <em><strong>The Genius Of Lenny Breau, </strong></em>directed by Breau&rsquo;s daughter Emily Hughes, Detective Richard Aldahl states that Jewel Breau was the prime suspect. Jewel Breau, now remarried as Jewel Flowers, was never charged in the homicide because detectives thought that the Los Angeles District Attorney&rsquo;s office couldn&rsquo;t build a strong enough case to bring her to trial. Ironically, it was Chet Atkins who introduced Lenny Breau to Jewel. Breau's murder remains <strong>unsolved</strong>.</div>
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<div>Lenny Breau was buried in an unmarked grave in <strong>Forest Lawn Cemetery</strong> in Glendale. Funeral expenses were covered by a memorial benefit at Nashville's Blue Bird Caf&eacute;.</div>
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:56:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/remembering-lenny-breau.htmlFROM GILMAN TO THE REP, GREEN DAY KEEP IT BERKELEY<img align="left" title="(l to r) Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tr&eacute; Cool&mdash;are collaborating with Berkeley Rep" alt="Green Day" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Berkeley_Rep_GreenDay_lr.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" /><br />
Last week the <strong>Berkeley Repertory Theatre</strong> announced the full cast for its anticipated upcoming premiere of <em><strong>American Idiot,</strong></em> a production based on the popular <strong>Green Day</strong> album of the same name, that will run at the downtown Berkeley theater from September 4 through October 11, and feature the music of Green Day and the lyrics of the longtime East&nbsp;Bay band's <strong>Billie Joe Armstrong.</strong>&nbsp; <br />
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Even before the cast was announced, tickets were already selling briskly, fueled in good part by Green Day fans anxious to see how their fave band's 2004 album is being adapted to the stage. <em>American Idiot</em> is being staged by star director <strong>Michael Mayer, </strong>who won a <strong>Tony Award</strong> in 2007 for his direction of the musical adaptation of <em><strong>Spring Awakening</strong></em>, and who collaborated with Armstrong on the story.&nbsp; <br />
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The stage production of <em>American Idiot</em> is decribed by the Berkeley Rep as one that &quot;follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East. In an exhilarating journey borne along by Green Day's electrifying songs, they seek redemption in a world filled with frustration.&quot;<br />
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The music driven production will feature not only every song off of <em>American Idiot,</em> which won two Grammys -- Best Rock Album and Record of the Year -- and sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, but also several songs from Green Day's follow up to <em>American Idiot,</em><strong><em> 21st Century Breakdown</em></strong>, which was released a few months ago and done in a similar style to <em>American Idiot. </em>The team that Mayer has assembled to bring the production to the Berkeley stage includes choreographer <strong>Steven Hoggett,</strong> composer&nbsp;<strong>Tom Kitt,</strong> and video designer <strong>Darrel Maloney</strong>. <br />
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/from-gilman-to-the-rep-green-day-keep-it-berkeley.htmlThe Beatles Pt 1We are kicking off the celebration today in honor of the digitally remastered <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/beatles/page1.html"><strong>Beatles</strong></a> reissues set to hit Amoeba September 9! Each Wednesday from now until September 2, we will present a segment of The Beatles' biography. Then, the week of September 2-9 will be marked here on the blog with a number of Beatles related posts with a huge variety of topics! We begin now with Part One of the fabled band's history:<br />
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&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t show business,&rdquo; <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/john-lennon/page1.html">John Lennon</a> </strong>said at the height of The Beatles&rsquo; success. &ldquo;This is something else.&rdquo;<br />
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Strictly in show business terms, the quartet from Liverpool, England rewrote the book on rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll, which prior to the group&rsquo;s 1962 recording debut was considered nothin<img height="205" align="right" width="280" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="beatles for sale" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/beatles-for-sale" />g more than disposable music for idle teens. While The Beatles were initially embraced by throngs of young fans (most of them female) -- in a phenomenon dubbed &ldquo;Beatlemania&rdquo; by the press -- with the same fervor previously accorded <strong>Frank Sinatra </strong>in the &lsquo;40s and <strong>Elvis Presley</strong> in the &lsquo;50s, the depth of their work quickly transcended their teen-idol genesis.<br />
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The songs penned by singer-guitarist Lennon and his collaborator, vocalist-bassist <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/paul-mccartney/page1.html"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></a> &ndash; and, to a lesser extent, those authored by guitarist-vocalist <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/george-harrison/page1.html"><strong>George Harrison</strong></a> &ndash; expanded rock&rsquo;s expressive capabilities, and broadened the audience for the music beyond its youthful base. Their producer<strong> George Martin</strong> transmuted The Beatles&rsquo; bold imaginative leaps in the studio, bringing theretofore unimaginable musical and technical textures to their recorded music. After sensationally announcing themselves with a string of irresistible hit singles that were greeted with unprecedented sales (which persisted until the end of the group&rsquo;s existence), The Beatles established the long-playing album as the principal commercial format, and as a forum for artistic expression. And their massive popularity on a global scale inaugurated the era of the stadium concert. In sheer magnitude, their achievement remains unrivaled to this day.<br />
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/amoeba-music/the-beatles-pt-1.htmlAugust 11, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/district9ticket.jpg" alt="District 9 movie ticket stub" /></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-11-2009.html
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:03:16 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-11-2009.htmlThe Second Weekend in August, 1969 ... Part Two<div><img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/viet.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><br />
Some observers see this second weekend in <strong>August</strong>, the 8th thru the 10th, <strong>1969</strong>, as effectively the end of the sixties&rsquo; counterculture as seen through rose colored glasses. The <strong>Vietnam War</strong> (which was never formally declared a war) was grinding on. In 1969 there would be 11,616 US military deaths, the second highest count during the war; almost 22,000 Vietnamese soldiers would be killed that year. This week would see the deaths of 169 US military personnel, over the weekend alone some 84 US soldiers would die. And every night TV newscasts were blanketed with those images. Vietnam is often characterized as the &quot;<em><strong>living-room war</strong></em>&quot; or the &quot;<em><strong>television war</strong></em>.&quot; It was the first war to be methodically documented nightly on television, and at a moment when TV was becoming a compelling presence in daily life.<img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw1.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /></div>
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<div>Other news that weekend included the discovery of the missing plane, Hawthorne-Nevada Airlines, Flight 708, that crashed just west of Lone Pine on February 18, killing all 35 passengers and crew. It was found on the eastern slope of Mount Whitney at an elevation of approximately 11,770 feet.</div>
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<div>On August 8, just six days after it was published in the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>, the <strong>Zodiac Killer</strong>&rsquo;s first unsigned encrypted message was solved by a Salinas, California high school teacher, Donald Harden, and his wife Bettye. The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in the Bay area in the late 1960&rsquo;s. His name was coined by a series of taunting letters and cryptograms he sent to police and newspapers until about 1974. The initial <strong>408-symbol cryptogram</strong> stated, among other things, that the Zodiac enjoyed &quot;killing people because it is so much fun.&quot; Harden was an amateur cryptographer and he reportedly took about 20 hours to break the code. Navy cryptographers had attempted to solve it, but without success. Of course some 40 years later, the identity of the Zodiac Killer still remains unsolved.</div>
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<div>On the 9th, President <strong>Richard Nixon</strong> announced the nomination of Helen D. Bentley as a Member of the <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw3.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />Federal Maritime Commission. Nixon also addressed the nation about domestic programs and a tax reform bill following its passage by the House of Representatives.</div>
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<div>That weekend also saw the deaths of <strong>Russ Morgan</strong>, orchestra leader as well as a long time performer at the Dunes in Las Vegas. <strong>Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer</strong>, crackpot eugenicist and Nazi physician, died in an automobile accident. Nobel Prize Laureate <strong>Cecil Frank Powell</strong> died while walking in the foothills of the Alps; he was 66 years of age. A bench with a commemorative plaque can be seen near the site of his death.</div>
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On Friday the 8th, <strong>Disneyland</strong> opened their doors to the new and soon to be classic attraction, the <strong>Haunted Mansion</strong>. Adorned with wrought iron fencing and surrounded by creepy tombstones, Walt Disney had <img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw4-1.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />envisioned the ghoulish Southern-style mansion even before the park opened in the 1954. The Haunted Mansion was originally seen as a walk-through experience, with cast members walking their guests /victims from one scene to the next as the netherworld unfolds. &ldquo;Welcome fooolish mortals to the Haunted Mansion. I am your host, your ghost host. Ha, ha, ha, ha ...&rdquo;</div>
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<div>Meanwhile, in sports, the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves behind the eventual 1969 Cy Young winner <strong>Tom Seaver</strong>. At this point in this, their Cinderella season, the Mets were still in second place, 8 and a half games back. The game on Saturday was 3 hours and 14 minutes long and the Mets won 5 to 3 on 13 hits. Seaver would finish his career with 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts and a 2.86 era in a 20-year career. In 1992, he was inducted into the <strong>National Baseball Hall of Fame</strong> by the highest percentage ever (98.8%).</div>
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<div>As for my LA Dodgers, on Sunday they beat the Chicago Cubs 4 to 2 behind the pitching of <strong>Don Sutton</strong> winning his 14th game of the year, Pete Mikkelsen got the save. Sutton would also wind up in the Hall of Fame, selected in 1998 with a career won lost mark of 324-256.</div>
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The 1969 <strong>Pikes Peak Marathon</strong>, an annual foot race that begins at the base of Pikes Peak in Manitou <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw7.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />Springs, Colorado, and climbs over 7,700 feet to the peak at 14,115 feet, was won by <strong>Steve Gachupin,</strong> who in his career would win the event 6 times in his 21 tries up the mountain.</div>
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<div>In professional <strong>bike</strong> racing news, the <strong>World Championship</strong> was won by Harm Ottenbros in Zolder, Belgium, edging out the favorite Julien Stevens by just a few centimeters.</div>
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<div>But of course, the big news, the chilling news that weekend, was the seemingly random and grisly murders in <strong>Beverly Hills</strong> and the <strong>Los Feliz district</strong>...</div>
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<div>On August 9th, a hot, quiet Saturday night -- one of the killers would later comment that you could hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers up and down the Benedict Canyon -- in a home rented by <strong>Roman Polanski</strong> and his wife <strong>Sharon Tate</strong> at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, <strong>Wojciech Frykowski</strong>, <strong>Abigail Folger</strong>, <strong>Jay Sebring</strong> and <strong>Steven Parent</strong> and a eight and a half months pregnant Tate were murdered in violent blood bath, as bizarre, gruesome and insane slaughter of innocents that might ever occur in any dystopia. Less than two days later another grisly murder occurred in the Los Feliz district -- this time it was supermarket executive <strong>Leno LaBianca</strong> and his wife <img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw6.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><strong>Rosemary</strong>. Killed in a similarly ghastly manner, this time a fork was used to carve the word WAR on Leno LaBianca&rsquo;s stomach and left sticking out of his corpse. Authorities would take nearly four months to track down <strong>Charles Manson</strong> and his Family. And when they were arrested and prosecuted, the world discovered a terrifying mix of a counterculture gone mad and staggering mind-control. Manson, <strong>Charles &quot;Tex&quot; Watson</strong>, <strong>Susan Atkins</strong>, and <strong>Patricia Krenwinkel</strong>'s trials ended in 1971; they were all given the death penalty, though later that was over-turned by the state of California, commuting their sentences to life in prison. Another family member, <strong>Linda Kasabian,</strong> who stood watch at the Tate house, turned states evidence and served no time.</div>
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<div>Roman Polanski (<em>The Fearless Vampire Killers</em>, <em>Rosemary's Baby</em>, <em>Chinatown</em>, <em>The Pianist</em>), who was out of town, was not Manson&rsquo;s target. The victims were in the wrong house at the wrong time. Manson, an aspiring singer-songwriter and an occasional friend of Beach Boy <strong>Dennis Wilson</strong>, chose the Cielo Drive house because he had once tried to get a record <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/aw5-1.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" />deal from a producer who used to live there, <strong>Terry Melcher</strong>, the son of Doris Day, and Manson knew the layout of the house. Past residents included Cary Grant and his wife Dyan Cannon, Henry Fonda, Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders and Candice Bergen. The final resident of the original Cielo Drive house was <strong>Trent Reznor</strong> of Nine Inch Nails, who moved into the house in the early 1990s and built a recording studio there. The studio dubbed Pig, or sometimes Le Pig, was an allusion to the fact that Susan Atkins wrote &quot;Pig&quot; in Tate's blood on the front door of the house during the murders. The Nine Inch Nails ep <em><strong>Broken</strong></em> and their classic 1994 album <em><strong>The Downward Spiral</strong></em> were recorded there, as well as <strong>Marilyn Manson</strong>'s debut album <strong><em>Portrait of an American Family</em></strong>. In December 1993 Reznor moved out of the house, taking with him the original front door, explaining that &quot;there was too much history in that house for me to handle.&quot; He insists that he didn&rsquo;t know about the murders when he bought the house, though I thought there was a law on the books requiring brokers to tell buyers about crimes that may have taken place in a home; the real estate term is &lsquo;stigmatized properties.&rsquo; Then again, what do I know? In the late 1990&rsquo;s the house was demolished and replaced with a new mansion and a new street address of 10066 Cielo Drive.</div>
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Addressing the clearly appreciative audience that packed the outdoor area of the <a href="http://www.museumca.org/"><strong>Oakland Museum of California </strong></a>on Friday night (August 7th) for the <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/Home"><em><strong>East Bay Express</strong></em></a><em>' </em>(<em>EBX)</em> mega 2009 <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/artsculture/a_celebration_of_some_of_the_east_bay_s_cool_subcultures/Content?oid=1168093"><strong>Best Of The East Bay Party</strong></a> (BOEB), <strong>Goapele</strong> perfectly summed up the positive vibe of the entire evening.<br />
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&quot;It's so good to be in Oakland and to have something positive like this going on,&quot; sincerely spoke the hometown soul singer between songs from the <strong>Amoeba Music Main Stage</strong>, articulating what many people must have been thinking at this huge, culturally diverse and uplifting event. <br />
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Accurately subtitled <strong>Subcultures</strong> and only in its second year, the Oakland Museum staged happening has fast become an important local cultural event, this year attracting 20,000 people -- more than double the expected number, according to<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/best-of-the-east-bay-2009-other-bay-area-weekend-events.html">Jody Colley</a></strong>, the publisher of the independently owned and operated alternative weekly.<br />
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After making her observation, Goapele, along with her tight four piece band, launched into the artist's new song &quot;Milk + Honey&quot; -- a song that incidentally appeared on the 15 track <em><strong>Best Of The East Bay Party 2009 CD Sampler,</strong></em> the free CD that was being handed out at the event that free to the public. <br />
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/2009-best-of-the-east-bay-party-was-a-huge-success.htmlDais Records Unearths COUM Transmissions<img width="250" height="245" align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Aaron_D/coumtransmissions2.jpg" /><br />
Bicoastal boutique label <a href="http://www.daisrecords.com/"><strong>Dais Records</strong></a> --founded in 2007 by <strong>Gibby Miller </strong>in L.A. and <strong>Ryan Martin</strong> in Brooklyn -- has, in its brief history, quickly amassed (with no signs of stopping) an impressive back-catalog of instantly classic releases by artists on the obscure and dark end of the spectrum. The label&rsquo;s roster of quality limited vinyl pressings includes albums by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cultofyouthband"><strong>Cult of Youth</strong> </a>and <a href="http://www.torlundvall.com/"><strong>Tor Lundval</strong>l</a> as well as the sought-after <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/07/black-light-district/cold-cave-love-comes-close-to-perfection.html"><strong>Cold Cave</strong></a> 12&rdquo;, <em>The Trees Grew Emotions and Died.</em>&nbsp; The label has also developed a trusted working relationship with <a href="http://genesisp-orridge.com/"><strong>Genesis Breyer P-Orridge</strong> </a>which has resulted in the vinyl release of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ptv3"><strong>Psychic TV</strong>&rsquo;s</a> recent full-length, <em>Mr. Alien Brain vs. The Skinwalkers</em>, and a haunting, previously unreleased 1968(!) archival recording from P-Orridge entitled <em>Early Worm</em> (now out of print). &nbsp; <br />
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A third upcoming team-up between P-Orridge and Dais is another archival release, entitled <strong><em>The Sound of Porridge Bubbling</em></strong> by the infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COUM_Transmissions"><strong>COUM Transmissions</strong></a>. Its release will mark the first time most will hear COUM Transmissions, a transgressive performance art collective and band founded, in part, by P-Orridge in 1967 (whose detailed story can be read in a 1999 illustrated biiography entitled <a href="http://www.blackdogonline.com/music/wreckers-of-civilisation.html"><strong><em>Wreckers of Civilisation</em></strong> by Simon Ford</a>). By the time <em>Sound </em>was recorded in 1971 its members also included <a href="http://www.coseyfannitutti.com/"><strong>Cosey Fanni-Tutti </strong></a>and, by 1976, eventually evolved into the seminal and forever holy/unholy <a href="http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/"><img width="250" height="322" align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Aaron_D/coumtransmissions1.jpg" /><strong>Throbbing Gristle</strong></a>.<br />
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The recordings went unreleased until now due to the rapid activity of the collective pushing them off as a priority. &nbsp;However, now that the seal on the vault has been cracked, further COUM&nbsp;archive releases via Dais are also in the works . <br />
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/black-light-district/dais-records-unearths-coum-transmissions.html(In which we mix up something good.)<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="music" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/820.jpg" /><br />
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Today I&rsquo;ve been doing one of my favorite things: making a mix-tape. Of course, I&rsquo;m not using any <em>tape</em> in this process, but somehow saying &ldquo;mix cd&rdquo; feels awkward. Much like saying &ldquo;dump Coke&rdquo; and &ldquo;poop shoulder&rdquo; &ndash; those are also awkward to say.<br />
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Anyway, crafting a playlist for a pal is one of my great joys. I don&rsquo;t have much free time these days, what with <a href="http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/LudditesSmashingLoomLarge.jpg">my stupid ol&rsquo; grown-up lifestyle</a>, but I used to make mix-tapes for people at the drop of a <a href="http://fredhag.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/bowler-hat1.jpg">hat</a>. The most casual of relationships could be an excuse.<br />
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<em>&ldquo;What are you doing, Job?&rdquo;</em><br />
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&ldquo;Making a mix-tape.&rdquo;<br />
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<em>&ldquo;For who?&rdquo;</em><br />
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&ldquo;A guy from the bakery.&rdquo;<br />
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<em>&ldquo;What guy?&rdquo;</em><br />
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&ldquo;&hellip;The baker.&rdquo;<br />
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<em>&ldquo;Oh. You&rsquo;re friends with the baker? The old dude? Isn&rsquo;t he, like, half deaf?&rdquo;</em><br />
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&ldquo;Is he? I dunno. I only just met him yesterday. Well, I mean, I <em>saw</em> him. Baking... things. I didn&rsquo;t really <em>talk</em> to him. But there was music playing in his bakery &ndash; some Sarah Vaughn &ndash; so I thought I&rsquo;d make him a mix of cool jazz and vocalists and maybe even throw in some early French cabaret&hellip;&rdquo;<br />
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And so it goes.</div>
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A good mix-tape isn&rsquo;t just an assortment of rad songs, though they&rsquo;re the meat of it. I&rsquo;m of the opinion that truly neat-o mixes are bound together by little, sonic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amuse-bouche"><em>amuse-bouches</em></a>; snippets of odd, silly, or even spooky clips. A line from a movie, an excerpted musical flourish, an individual sound effect even &ndash; all these things work.<br />
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:28:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-we-mix-up-something-good-.htmlNew 12" Electronic Releases at Amoeba Hollywood 08/14/09<div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/GetAttachment-2-1-2-3-4-5.aspx.jpeg" /><br />
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<u><strong>New Electro/Techno 12&quot;s Coming This Weekend:</strong></u><br />
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<em>EPHEMERIS EP</em> 12&quot; <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fresh off the label headed by RARESH and RHADOO comes this techno chugger EP. The first track hits like a techno track, but is mellowed by an almost lullaby in the background. On the flip is a loopy house cut, begging to be toyed with and layered...a groover!</span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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KENNY &amp; SHLOMI ABER both drop a mix of &quot;SKETCHES.&quot; KENNY's is pure techno, with amazing drum progressions and a hypnotic lead that spans 10 minutes of funk. ABER's version is tougher with a phat bassline, a jazzy rhythm, and a snare infused shuffle.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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<div><strong>Fort Knox Five&nbsp;</strong><em>RADIO FREE DC RMX #8</em> 12&quot; FKX021</div>
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<strong>Le Professeur Inlassable&nbsp;</strong><em>AKILEUS</em> 7&quot; IN101 &nbsp;</div>
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<strong>Lorett Fleur&nbsp;</strong><em>YOUR BEST FRIEND </em>7&quot; FVR030</div>
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<strong>Time &amp; Space Machine&nbsp;</strong><em>CHILDREN</em> 7&quot; TIRK047&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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<strong>Justice&nbsp;</strong><em>THE CROSS</em> DLP BEC5772110</div>
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<strong>Justice&nbsp;</strong><em>D.A.N.C.E.</em> 12&quot; BEC5772071</div>
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<strong>Justice&nbsp;</strong><em>D.A.N.C.E. REMIXES</em> 12&quot; BEC5772130</div>
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<strong>Justice&nbsp;</strong><em>DVNO REMIXES</em> 12&quot; BEC5772317</div>
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<strong>Justice&nbsp;</strong><em>PHANTOM II </em>12&quot; BEC5772169</div>
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<strong>Justice vs Simian&nbsp;</strong><em>WE ARE YOUR REMIX</em> 12&quot; TENTDJ505</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first single to be lifted from their album <em>INSITUTE OF JOY,</em> this is a groovy indie meets leftfield dance EP with a strong vocal from ZEBEN and two remixes (in addition to the original) from NY's HOUSE OF HOUSE and WAY OF ANCIENTS (aka THOMAS BULLOCK of MAP OF AFRICA, RUB-N-TUG).<br />
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:32:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/new-12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-14-09.htmlThe Second Weekend in August, 1969 ... Part One<div>I wonder if anything significant about this past weekend will be remembered in <strong>40 years time</strong>, other then <strong>Sonia Sotomayor</strong> being sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and maybe <strong>Tiger Woods</strong>&rsquo; unbelievable play at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. This weekend back in 1969 is definitely remembered for a variety of odd and groovy and trivial and horrifying reasons.</div>
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<div>In the summer of 1969 I was living carefree at 4200 Franklin Avenue in <strong>Los Angeles</strong> near Griffith Park, with my parents, grandmother, two sisters, and of course our Siamese cat Pandora and a Great Dane named Dijo who would eventually, later in the year, attack me without provocation. She was a nutty and twisted beast. And typical of August in LA, it was annoyingly hot and smoggy. If you didn&rsquo;t live here back then you just don&rsquo;t know smog-- lung scorching air under a sky colored golden toasty brown to the apex. Now that&rsquo;s pollution! This was also the first summer I really started noticing music. I culled some change from my mom&rsquo;s purse to buy my first single, which also happened to be #1 on the Billboard charts this weekend in 1969, and would be for six consecutive weeks -- &quot;<strong>In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)</strong>&quot; by <strong>Zager and Evans</strong>. In the UK the #1 song was &quot;<strong>Honky Tonk Women</strong>&quot; by the <strong>Rolling Stones</strong>, which has noticeably survived the tastes of time better then &ldquo;2525.&rdquo; The #1 album in the US was the self-titled second album by <strong>Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears</strong>. Earlier in the year in March it was briefly at the top of the charts, but with three successive Top 5 singles, it returned once again to the number one position. In 1970 it would win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. &nbsp;<img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/week2.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /></div>
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<div>Also this weekend 40 years ago, the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/beatles/page1.html" target="_blank"><strong>Beatles</strong></a> posed for one of their most iconic images-- the <em><strong>Abbey Road</strong></em> album cover shot of the George, Paul, Ringo and John at the zebra crossing on Abbey Road. They were mostly done working on their newest album and, having applied the last overdubs that morning to the longest track, &quot;I Want You (She's So Heavy),&quot; photographer <strong>Iain Macmillan</strong> was given ten minutes to get the cover photo done. At 11:35 am on Friday, August 8, 1969, the image was shot. Of course, when the album was released in September, the cover art only fueled the rumors and speculation that Paul McCartney had indeed died in a <strong>car crash</strong> in 1966 and all the symbolic references only confirmed the sad fact.<br />
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:38:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/the-second-weekend-in-august-1969-part-one.htmlNovelty rap and the harsh realities of adolescence -- Freddy Rap and other strange happenings of 1987Back in 1987 and '88, before <strong>Chucky</strong> and the <strong>Leprechaun </strong>came along and divided the loyalties of urban cineastes along racial lines, <strong>Freddy</strong> and the hip-hop community were hand in metal-clawed glove. It was the year <em><strong>Nightmare on Elm Street 3 </strong></em>was released. Why did Freddy rap occur then and not sooner? There had been a building sense of unease for several years, as evinced in <strong>Rockwell</strong>'s 1984 hit &quot;Somebody's Watching Me&quot; and <strong>Dana Dane</strong>'s 1985 hit &quot;Nightmares.&quot; It was the climax of the Cold War, after all. <em>Nightmare on Elm Street 3</em> was widely viewed as the best entry in the series and was the most successful until <em><strong>FVJ</strong></em> in 2003. It may've just been me, but I also think 1987 was just a weird, wonderful year.<br />
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For me, it was full of confusion and mystery. I'd grown somewhat comfortable with my classmates over the seven years of elementary school, but in 1987, I was off to junior high. The air on the school bus was a gaseous psychotropic cocktail of aquanet and Jheri Curl. When the smoke cleared, I found myself at <strong>Jefferson Jr High</strong>, in the middle of town. The formerly all-white school, my black Social Studies teacher informed us, had been the domain of the devil and his wife (a witch) when he was growing up during segregation. I&nbsp;later figured out her reasons for creating that myth, but it might as well have been true to me at the time. Junior High, in contrast to the relative peace of elementary school, was a trial by fire where violence could and frequently did break out as the pecking order got sorted out. I quickly learned to never use the restrooms. There was tremendous pressure to adopt a sort of uniform with classmates scrutinizing and passing judgment on hair, jackets, shirts, pants, shoes, musical tastes, &amp;c. Brands and styles of (generally tightrolled)&nbsp;jeans (something I'd honestly never thought about) were cyphers that revealed more about their wearer's personality and background than their cracking voices ever could.<br />
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:44:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/novelty-rap-and-the-harsh-realities-of-adolescence-freddy-rap-and-other-strange-happenings-of-1987.htmlGomez & Mari G At Travel Tips For Aztlan<img height="270" align="left" width="300" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Gomez/12672017_l.jpg" alt="" /><br />
On Saturday, August 8th, I had the pleasure of guest deejaying on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/traveltips">Travel Tips For Aztlan </a>on <a href="http://www.kpfk.org">KPFK 90.7 FM</a> in Los Angeles. <em>Travel Tips </em>is one of L.A.'s longest running Latin Alternative radio programs. My co-host, Mari G., and I filled in for regular hosts <strong>Mark Torres</strong> and <strong>Mariluz Gonzalez</strong>, who took a much-needed Saturday night off. Hopefully we will do more fill-in spots for Mark and Mariluz in the future, as Mari G. and I have plenty of music to share. So, what did we play? We played lots of Cumbia, both traditional and remixes. We played a boat load of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/toyselectahdj">Toy Selectah</a> remixes and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bersadiscos">Bersa Discos</a> tracks. We played music from Mexico that is sadly not out in the U.S. <br />
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Below is our set list from that night. I marked certain releases that Amoeba Hollywood currently has in stock, just in case you would like to pick up a copy for yourself.<br />
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1.<strong> Das Pop</strong> - &quot;Underground&quot;<em> </em>(Busy P Remix)<br />
2. <strong>Quantic &amp; his Combo Barbaro</strong> - &quot;Un Canto a Mi Tierra&quot; (from the <em>Traditions in Transition</em> CD/LP)<br />
3. <strong>Banda de Turistas </strong>- &quot;Un Verdadero Cajon de Madera&quot;<br />
4. <strong>Quiero Club </strong>- &quot;Minutos de Aire&quot;<br />
5. <strong>Tontelas </strong>- &quot;En Do&quot; (from <em>The Greatest Hits Of G.A.M.M. vol II)</em><br />
6. <strong>Sabo &amp; S.O.S.</strong> &ndash; &quot;Colegiala Dub&quot; (from the <em>Sol Selectas #7 </em>12&rdquo;)<br />
7. <strong>Los Angeles Azules vs. Sonidero Nacional </strong>- &quot;Como Te Voy A Olvidar&quot;<br />
8. <strong>Grupo Mojado</strong> - &quot;Tonta&quot; (Mexican Dubwiser Remix) btw...&quot;Mexican Dubweiser&quot; -- Mix CD coming soon to Amoeba Hollywood!!! <br />
9. <strong>Tzochitl Soundsystem vs. Toy Selectah</strong> - &quot;Ay Guey&quot; (from <em>The Bersa Discos #5 </em>12&quot;) (background music: <strong>Sonido Principe</strong> &ndash; &quot;Cartagena&quot;)<br />
10. <strong>Dj Lengua </strong>- &quot;Cumbia Squares&quot; (from his self-titled 12&rdquo;)<br />
11. <strong>Henry Castro</strong> - &quot;Cumbia Colombiana&quot;<br />
12. <strong>Rodger Mas</strong> - &quot;Cumbia Bonita&quot; (from his 7&rdquo; on <a href="http://www.unicorniorecords.com">Club Unicornio Records</a>)<br />
13. <strong>Devandra Banhart</strong> &ndash; &quot;Carmensita&quot; (Toy Selectah Raverton Remix) (background music: <strong>Poncho Kingz </strong>- &quot;Space Cumbia&quot; (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/sonideronacional">Sonidero Nacional</a> Remix)<br />
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:44:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/los-angeles-me/gomez-mari-g-at-travel-tips-for-aztlan.htmlA Few More Thoughts on Technology and Realism: Pac-Man and Surrogates Trailer<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/pac-man.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="250" height="288" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/pac-man.jpg" style="border: 5px solid white;" alt="pac-man game" /></a>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/pac-man-skeleton.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="216" height="288" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/pac-man-skeleton.jpg" style="border: 5px solid white;" alt="pac-man skeleton death" /></a></div>
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I gave up playing video games when I encountered the second button. I was alright with jumping, but combination moves and shit like that tended to take me out of the formal (as in Platonic) perfection of a <em>Pac-Man</em> or <em>Space Invaders</em>. If I want gritty (as in non-Platonic) realism, I'll read <strong>Bukowski</strong>, or watch a <strong>Cassavetes</strong> film. I've since played a few of these realistic &quot;moving&quot; games where one drives through a simulated real city, running into other cars or over innocent bystanders (other variations of this game type have the player as a superhero, vigilante, soldier, or cute creature on some ostensible quest -- e.g., killing zombies -- but they're more about just moving through a virtual environment). The only thing they add to the endless struggle (at least, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#Perfect_play" target="_blank">ideally</a>) of a little round guy eating dots is more detail -- the ontology remains unchanged.&nbsp;<em>Pac Man</em> already had the truth of its and the player's existence written into its elegant design. That is, it said everything that needed to be said: keep playing, desire can now be quantified by the score; the goal never changes, nor will you ever get closer to it, no matter how fast things start moving. <br />
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Speaking of existence being reduced to the score, the reknowned junkie <strong>William S. Burroughs</strong> once narrated a video game based on the writings of <strong>Edgar Allen Poe</strong> called <em>The Dark Eye</em>. Looks interesting, although I hear it bombed:</div>
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But back to the yellow fellow: Speed, color scheme and fruit are pretty much the only differences in its levels. The game's &quot;progression&quot; is a matter of pseudoindividuation: slight variation to keep the player committed to/distracted from/entertained by the standardization. The techno-realism of a <em>Grand Theft Auto</em> only adds more complex layers of novelty to <em>Pac-Man</em>, bogging the player down with data (more places to visit, more visual detail, more complex controls), keeping him or her lost in the details. If <em>Pac Man</em> was sort<img width="200" height="265" align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/existenz-poster.jpg" style="border: 5px solid white;" alt="cronenberg existenz poster" /> of an existential map, the purpose of which was to lead us temporarily away from life's troubles, the more realistic derivations seem to be moving us in the direction of cyberpunk dystopias, where the map (virtual reality) is just as convoluted as the mapped (old-fashioned reality), eventually rendering any distinction seemingly useless, like in <strong>David Cronenberg</strong>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXistenZ#Plot" target="_blank"><em>eXistenZ</em></a>. Most games now have to supply the player with a map, so can the possibility of getting lost &quot;in there&quot; be that far off? And isn't that the fantasy behind realism, to get lost within the simulated reality, to not be able to distinguish the depiction from the depicted? If reality can't be controlled, substitute its image, which (supposedly) can, or, to appropriate <strong>Theodor Adorno</strong> once again:</div>
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Reality becomes its own ideology through the spell cast by its faithful duplication. -- &quot;The Schema of Mass Culture&quot;</div>
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I remember a bunch of criticism directed towards the blandness of Cronenberg's design for the gaming environment in his film, that it looked too plain. However, I took his point to be Adorno's: that no matter how much a game (or movie, or any other art) allows us to fantasize about being in control over our surroundings, someone else is doing the programming that sets the rules. The technologically enhanced realism furthers the fantasy, while ultimately decreasing our (the players') control on reality. The endgame of this fantasy -- where reality itself becomes its own simulation for our avatars to play in -- is the conceit of the new <strong>Bruce Willis</strong> vehicle, <em>Surrogates</em> (adaped from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrogates" target="_blank">comic book</a>):</div>
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An intriguing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates_(film)#Premise" target="_blank">idea</a>, even if the execution looks like standard Hollywood sci-fi cheese. I guess what I've been angling for is this: If one of our primary fantasies is being in control, then it would seem that its logical, utlimate, fantastic realm would not look like some weird alien world, or an abstract dimension of colors and shapes (such as <em>Pac-Man</em> or <em>TRON</em>), but exactly like the one we know, only without any of the risks and vicissitudes of the real deal. That's why with all the technological innovations in film production, with a near boundless <img width="110" height="160" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/samuel-delany.jpg" style="border: 5px solid white;" alt="samuel r delany" />potential to create increasingly bizarre <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealism_(philosophy)" target="_blank">(ir)realities</a>, the fantasy genre (in which I'd put science fiction, cartoons and whatever else I've been talking about lately) has been getting more realistic. Barring the occasional fetishist, I suspect most people would have sex with a simulated human on <em>Star Trek</em>'s holodeck, not some sentient squid creature. Rather than expanding, or questioning, the predisposed ideas wrapped up in our common conception of reality as a good fantastic yarn can do (e.g., pick one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" target="_blank"><strong>Samuel R. Delany</strong>'s books</a>), the realistic capabilities of technology are limiting the possibilities of imagination, of counterfactual situations, to think outside the box, when it makes the fantasy look like reality. <br />
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:01:36 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-9-2009.htmlGraffiti Vet DEMER Combines His Two Loves With New Jersey's Graffiti Comix: Amoeblog Summer Graffiti Series Part V<div style="text-align: center;"><img hspace="8" height="237" width="519" vspace="8" align="middle" alt="DEMER" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/billyjam/BillyJamDEMER.jpg" title="The artist at work. Dermer making beautiful art one recent afternoon" /></div>
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<strong>Demer: </strong>Well, I'm originally from New York City.&nbsp;I started writing in the early 80's, hitting NYC subways. Then, after the city won the train wars, I retired for a few years. Then in 2001 I came back and I haven't stopped since.<br />
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<strong>Amoeblog: </strong>So starting out during the New York subway graff days is going back a while, right to the roots of NYC graf history.&nbsp;What year exactly did you start?<br />
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<strong>Demer: </strong>When I was hitting trains it was an everyday thing. We lived it back then-- from when you got up in the morning until you went to bed. Sunday was, for some reason though, a big graff day for a lot of people.<br />
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:59:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/gremlins-tonight-at-the-new-beverly-cinema-.htmlR.I.P. Willy DeVille<img width="350" height="228" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/up-devilleLG.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="willy deville" /><br />
The former frontman of <strong>Mink Deville</strong> passed away yesterday from recently found pancreatic cancer; he was 55. Making his initial splash with Mink Deville during the mid/late 70's in the early days of the <strong>CBGB</strong>'s scene. The band, like many of their contemporaries, got lumped in with the then-fashionable punk scene.&nbsp; For Mink Deville this was especially ridiculous, as their whole schtick was about as far from the <strong>Dead Boys </strong>as you could get.<br />
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:50:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/r-i-p-willy-deville.htmlAMOEBA MUSIC HIP-HOP WEEKLY ROUND UP: 08:07:09<div style="text-align: center;">
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1) <strong>Kool Keith</strong><em> Lost Masters Collection</em> (Dmaft Records)<br />
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4) <strong>Dorrough</strong> <em>Dorrough Music</em> (E1 Entertainment)<br />
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Thanks to Luis, the hip-hop buyer at Amoeba Music San Francisco, for this week's top five, which includes in the number one slot the brand new triple CD release from <strong>Kool Keith, <em>Lost Masters Collection.</em> </strong>The record dropped on the<strong> Ultramagnetic</strong> hip-hop living legend's own <strong>Dmaft Records</strong> this past Tuesday. This 3 disc set (50 songs in total)&nbsp;is a must get for fans of the veteran, prolific, freaky-minded emcee. Also just released this past&nbsp;Tuesday is the full-length from popular Dallas native <strong>Dorrough</strong>, who previously scored <strong><img align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/61mFudoCP-L._SL160_AA160_.jpg" alt="anti no more heroes" style="border: 8px solid white;" /></strong>a hit with the song &quot;Do Tha Muscle&quot; as a member of the group <strong>Prime Time Click</strong>. Simply titled <strong><em>Dorrough Music</em> </strong>on <strong>E1 Entertainment, </strong>the new album features the hot summer 2009 radio/club song and riding anthem &quot;Ice Cream Paint Job&quot; (see video below). <br />
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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:24:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoeba-music-hip-hop-weekly-round-up-08-07-09.htmlAmoeba Berkeley Crosses The Bridge To Rock Your Pants Off!By Spenser Cooper Russell-Snyder<br />
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This year's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/amoebapalooza/page1.html">Amoebapalooza</a> was yet another all out bash, but this year we joined <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/amoebapalooza-north-the-sf-bands-.html">the SF store</a> at The Mezzanine for a gigantic morsel of audible chaos. The Berkeley store brought the rock this year, starting<br />
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First up for the Berkeley store was <strong>Stormy King and The Mad Switch</strong>. Plucking her 12 string acoustic guitar, Stormy and mad-switcher Matt opened the night with a great mix of electro-acoustic soundscapes.<br />
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After a San Franciscan band, <strong>B.B. &amp; The Bop Guns</strong> hit the stage. The three-piece switched instruments with each song, yet was consistent in their blues-inspired garage rock. Headed up by Amoeba's Brenden, the band flooded the audience with cool attitude and hip songs to match.<br />
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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/amoeba-berkeley-crosses-the-bridge-to-rock-your-pants-off-.htmlBEST OF THE EAST BAY 2009 + OTHER BAY AREA WEEKEND EVENTS<div style="text-align: center;">
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Once again this summer weekend in the Bay Area there are a wealth of wonderful happenings, many of them free. One of the biggest events is, of course, the mega, must-attend <em><strong>East Bay Express</strong></em>' (<em>EBX</em>) big annual <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/BestOf"><strong>Subcultures </strong></a><strong><img width="200" height="200" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/6a00c2251c04e5604a00d41448862d6a47-500pi.jpg" alt="souls of mischief" style="border: 8px solid white;" />Best Of The East Bay Party</strong> at the <a href="http://www.museumca.org/"><strong>Oakland Museum of California</strong></a> featuring the <strong>Amoeba Music Main Stage</strong> with such acts as <strong>Goapele, Souls of Mischief, 7th Street Band, C&nbsp;U&nbsp;Next Weekend, Maldroid, Fracas,</strong> and <strong>Social Unrest.</strong> The above video is of <strong>Jody Colley</strong>, the tireless publisher of the independently owned and operated weekly, taking a break from setting up for this evening's big event to talk briefly with the Amoeblog about what to expect at the event that starts at 5pm sharp today (Friday August 7th).&nbsp; That's exactly when, on the Amoeba Music Main Stage, <strong>The Thrill of it All </strong>-- the first of 13 acts scheduled to play on that stage -- will prompty begin.&nbsp;Social Unrest, the closing act, will hit the stage at 11pm for their half-hour punk rock set.<br />
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Same as last year's party, Amoeba Music will again have a booth set up (stop by and say &quot;hi&quot; to <strong>Naomi S.</strong> and the rest of the Amoeba crew) where you can spin the wheel of fortune and win goodies and get free stuff. But that is just the tip of the iceberg at this event, which, as Jody says in the above interview, is expected to draw 10,000 people. The diverse mix of entertainment includes a <strong>Kids Zone, Gearhead Garage, Professional Contact Sports</strong>, plus much more in the museum's outdoor garden area. Of course, the Oakland Museum's exhibits -- alone worth the trip -- are also all open to the public. As Jody stresses, since a lot of people are expected to be converging on the big, free party (especially after word about how dope last year's party at the same venue was), try to get there earlier rather than later to ensure admission and leave your cars at home (valet bike parking provided). <br />
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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/best-of-the-east-bay-2009-other-bay-area-weekend-events.htmlFILM DIRECTOR JOHN HUGHES DIES SUDDENLY TODAY AT AGE 59<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344">
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<strong>John Hughes</strong>, the filmmaker responsible for (to name but a few) such 1980's films as <strong><em>Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful</em></strong>, <em><strong>She's Having a Baby,</strong></em><strong> </strong>and <em><strong>Ferris Bueller's Day Off</strong></em> (all available on DVD at Amoeba), died earlier today after suffering a sudden heart attack during a walk this morning in Manhattan. He was only 59.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b138124_john_hughes_bard_of_teenage_angst_has.html?utm_source=eonline&amp;utm_medium=rssfeeds&amp;utm_campaign=rss_topstories">Read the full report here</a>.<br />
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:30:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/film-director-john-hughes-dies-suddenly-today-at-age-59.htmlBen Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance Chats<strong>Ben Chasny</strong> is the man, the myth from Drag City guitar fest <strong>Six Organs of Admittance</strong>. Sounds like the making of his latest record, <strong><em>Luminous Light,</em></strong> out August 18, was some seriously risky business, what with the Turkish prison-style atmosphere and all!&nbsp;Check out our correspondance below:<br />
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<strong>Miss Ess: What music did you hear in your house when you were growing up, before you had a choice? Do you think this music had any influence on you?<br />
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<strong>Ben Chasny:&nbsp;</strong><strong>The Rolling Stones</strong> - <strong><em>Tattoo You</em></strong>. Well, I have a crazy tribal backplate, so yes. <br />
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<strong>ME:&nbsp;When did you pick up the guitar?</strong><br />
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<strong>ME:&nbsp;When and how did you start writing songs?</strong><br />
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<strong>BC:</strong> When I was 3. I wrote a song called &quot;The Futility of the Rattle&quot; inspired by Sartre. I've tried to simplify things since then. <br />
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<strong>ME:&nbsp;How has living in Seattle as opposed to the Bay Area influenced your latest batch of songs?</strong><br />
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<strong>ME:&nbsp;What made you ready to move away from a mostly guitar-based sound for this album?</strong><br />
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:37:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sing/ben-chasny-of-six-organs-of-admittance-chats.htmlThe evolution of the music video, part II (1950s - 1960s)As persuasively and incontestably argued in <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/07/eric-s-blog/the-evolution-of-the-music-video-part-i-1890s-1940s-.html"><strong>The evolution of the music video, part I&nbsp; (1890s - 1940s)</strong></a>, the music video began not in the '80s, as is often wrongly assumed, but the '90s... the 1890s (if we accept the basic concept of videos being one stand-alone work of one song/one visual). From the humble sound experiments at the dawn of the celluloid age through the artistic flowering of Soundies, many musical promos were created of high historical and artistic importance. In the 1950s and '60s, videos moved from bars and clubs to the living room, as television became the new venue for music promotion.<br />
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</strong>According to<strong> the </strong><strong>Quixotic</strong><strong> Internet Accuracy Project</strong>, the term &quot;music video&quot;&nbsp;was coined by DJ (VJ?) <strong>J.P. &quot;The Big Bopper&quot; Richardson </strong>in 1959. That year, the <strong>Cinebox</strong> hit the scene, essentially following in the footsteps of Soundies by manufacturing videos for what&nbsp;was essentially a&nbsp;jukebox with a visual component. In 1965, the Cinebox was re-branded the Colorama in the&nbsp;US. The following year it&nbsp;was again re-branded, this time as&nbsp;the <strong>Cinejukebox</strong>.<br />
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/eric-s-blog/the-evolution-of-the-music-video-part-ii-1950s-1960s-.htmlWHITE STRIPES, CHARLES NELSON REILLY PARODIED BY "WEIRD AL" <br />
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Playing the roles of both <strong>Jack </strong>and <strong>Meg White,</strong> the prolific king of music parodies, <strong>&ldquo;Weird Al&rdquo; Yankovic</strong>, channels the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/white-stripes/page1.html"><strong>White Stripes</strong> </a>and their song&nbsp; &ldquo;Icky Thump&rdquo; in his latest song/video &ldquo;CNR,&rdquo; his tribute to the late <strong>Charles Nelson Reilly</strong>. The video, posted to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwNYjwbwag">YouTube</a>, premiered a couple of days ago on <a href="http://www.JibJab.com">JibJab.com</a> where those interested have an opportunity to do their own basic remix of the &quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic video.&nbsp; <br />http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/white-stripes-charles-nelson-reilly-parodied-by-weird-al-.html
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Thanks to <strong>Tom McQuown</strong> at Amoeba Music Berkeley for schooling me on the historic night the above clip featuring the late <strong>Allen&nbsp;GInsberg</strong> is taken from. It was a June 11, 1965 performance at London's <strong>Royal Albert Hall</strong> and the large venue sold out all of its 7000 seats-- an amazing accomplishment for a spoken word/poetry event. In addition to Ginsberg, the performance, which was billed as the <strong> International Poetry Incarnation</strong>, attracted a wide variety of important figures at the time, including <strong>Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Michael Horovitz</strong>, <strong>Tom McGrath</strong> and <strong>Adrian Mitchell</strong>. The performance was recorded by <strong>Peter Whitehead,</strong> who documented the event on film and released it as <em><strong>Wholly Communion</strong></em>, which is where the above video clip came from. Two years ago the film was released on DVD in the UK under the title <strong><em>Wholly Communion and &amp; The Endless Reinvention of the 1960's, </em></strong>which also includes Whitehead's 1967 documentary <em><strong>Benefit of the Doubt.</strong></em><br />
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As Amoeba's&nbsp;McQuown related, what was most amazing about the night was how it became such a happening, bringing together all these people in London in 1965 who never saw themselves as a collective up til this point. &quot;It was a time when a lot of people who didn't necessarily know each other showed up at this poetry event&nbsp;but they started to recognize each other. They might have seen each other at other art or poetry happenings or at an early<strong> Pink Floyd</strong> show.&nbsp;But this night kind of solidifed things and people started to realize that they were all connected and all part of a scene,&quot; said McQuown. Not surprisingly, a copious amount of mind altering drugs, not to mention a lot of booze, was consumed that evening by those in the audience and on stage and hence some of the performances were a little sloppy. But none of that mattered for the &quot;wholly communion&quot; that took place that night 44 years ago.</div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/back-when-a-poetry-reading-sold-out-the-royal-albert-hall.html
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:56:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/back-when-a-poetry-reading-sold-out-the-royal-albert-hall.htmlAugust 5, 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Phil/collectorticket.jpg" alt="The Collector movie ticket stub" /><br />
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:02:59 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/august-5-2009.htmlMad Men Season 2<div style="text-align: left;">by Scott</div>
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When a cable show starts its 2nd season, there's always a fear that it won't be a worthy successor to the previous one. There's also a hope that, because of the show being given a green light for the 2nd season, <img width="200" height="270" align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="mad men season 2" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Nor Cal Bloggers/mad-men-women" />the show will push the envelope and try things that they wouldn't have tried in the 1st season.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/mad-men/page1.html" target="_blank"><em><strong>Mad Men</strong></em></a>'s 2nd season is every bit as good as its 1st -- in some cases, better. AMC has the best show on television: it's halfway<img width="200" height="220" align="right" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="jackie kennedy" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Nor Cal Bloggers/jackie-kennedy" /> between a miniseries and a <span id="lw_1249497345_0" class="yshortcuts">feature film</span>. It's lit and costumed like a feature film, but with the low story arc of a miniseries.<br />
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There are many extras in this newly released DVD set of Season 2: do yourself a favor and watch the documentaries first. There are lots of shorts on cultural events of the 60s (<strong>Jackie Kennedy</strong>'s tour of the White House, the <span id="lw_1249497345_1" class="yshortcuts">Port Huron statement</span>, and <strong><span id="lw_1249497345_2" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Mark Rothko,</span> </strong>to name a few). There are longer documentaries on feminism (spread out over 2 discs) and fashion through the entire decade of the 1960s. Commentaries, especially those by the show creator, <strong>Matt Weiner</strong>, are insightful and entertaining, but should be heard after watching each episode.<br />
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:15:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/mad-men-season-2.htmlAmoebapalooza North -- The SF Bands!<div style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="333" title="Mark Bowen and its namesake." alt="amoebapalooza 09" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Nor Cal Bloggers/amoebapalooza-09-3" /></div>
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Having participated once before in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/amoebapalooza/page1.html">Amoebapalooza</a>, our annual night of musical mayhem, rhythm and revelry, I had some idea of what to expect when I stepped through the doors of The Mezzanine on a San Francisco summer night. Without casting any dispersions on venues of the past, I was immediately impressed by the layout of the theatre, the size, the decor, and, above all, the state of the art sound system. I zipped up my green Adidas track suit and strode boldly in.<br />
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While looking forward to the entire evening of revelry, I was personally invested in two particular acts.&nbsp; One of them had me feeling particularly (I'll admit) apprehensive. The other was scheduled to open the show. Let's start there, shall we?<br />
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After a hearty and enthusiastic welcome from our capable and well dressed hosts, <strong>W.C. Von der Berc's Cabaret</strong> took the stage with preamble courtesy of one drunken and belligerent clown. I had been enlisted to slap upright bass, a duty which I was happy to perform, doing my best to keep up with the dark carnival maelstrom that is W.C. and his Cabaret. Standards of yesteryear such as &quot;St. Louis Blues&quot; and &quot;I Put A Spell On You&quot; were given a treatment reminiscent of absinthe and anarchy, punk and pandemonium. Quite a sight to see!<br />
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:13:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/amoebapalooza-north-the-sf-bands-.htmlThomas Nola and O Paradis: Supergroup Paradise<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">
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Les Paradisiers</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is a musical power-marriage between American underground musician, author, and <a href="http://www.eskimofilms.com/">film director</a> <strong>Thomas Nola</strong> (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/etsonorchestre"><strong>et Son Orchestre</strong></a>) and Barcelona-based Mediterranean-Neo-folk artist <strong>Demian,</strong> aka <a href="http://www.myspace.com/oparadis "><strong>O Paradis</strong></a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The duo&rsquo;s first aural offspring, <em>More Tales From </em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>The Garden</em>, was recently released on LP with F</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ree Digital Download Card via Nola&rsquo;s own <strong><a href="http://www.eskimofilms.com/lapin.html ">Disques de Lapin</a> </strong>imprint. The LP features a dozen dark, uneasy and psychedelic trips through Thomas and Demian&rsquo;s exotic and</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> anachronous universe, where humid locales not only house jungle birds </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and cats, but also early 20th Century European speakeasies hosting American Vaudeville and Spanish Cabaret acts with 1980&rsquo;s Goth</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> sensibilities. </span></div>
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<em>Tales</em>&rsquo; atmosphere is helped along by the fact that it was birthed into one being in two very separate places-- Demian&rsquo;s parts were recorded in Barcelona and Thomas&rsquo;s contributions were captured in Boston, MA. Therefore, the album is also a bilingual affair, split between American English and Peninsular Spanish. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> However, much like O Paradis&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/%25C3%2594%2BParadis%2B%2526%2BNov%25C3%25BD%2BSv%25C4%259Bt">collaborative efforts</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> with the now-defunct Austrian</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> neo-cabaret</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> act <a href="http://www.myspace.com/nekofutschata"><strong>Novy Svet</strong></a>, Nola and Demian are actually a logical pairing. Both artists are popular among</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> fans of the Neofolk genre but neither of them carry or are weighted-down by any of the problematic dogma that exists within it. The pair&rsquo;s main respective projects seem to strive to weave new surreal worlds out of the pieces and tatters of this one, rather then anchoring their songs in a particular part of real world history. Where many of their peers&rsquo; albums are academic in nature, Nola and O Paradis&rsquo;s output is usually looser and takes itself less seriously. Les Paradisiers doesn&rsquo;t stop this trend.&nbsp; <br />
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/black-light-district/thomas-nola-and-o-paradis-supergroup-paradise.htmlEye On L.A And Its Lasting ImpressionsAs a youngster growing up in the late 70&rsquo;s/early 80&rsquo;s, I had a misconception of L.A. life. Since my reality was based on what I saw on television, Los Angeles was all palm trees with tanned blondes sailing on yachts during the day, then going to the clubs at night, mostly to enjoy female mud wrestling. Why would I have such a skewed vision of Los Angeles? <em><strong>Eye On L.A</strong></em><strong>.</strong>, of course. <em>Eye on L.A.</em> is Los Angeles&rsquo; longest running news segment program, and it is still on today. I feel that <strong>Will Ferrell </strong>and <strong>Adam McKay</strong> must have watch many hours of <em>Eye On L.A.</em> as well to have created a movie as twisted as<em> Anchorman</em>. In fact, check out this promo for <em>Eye On L.A.</em> back in 1982, which starts with the startling tale of heiress Patty Hearst, the &ldquo;Slave Of The SLA,&rdquo; then ends with female mud wrestling. I can&rsquo;t make this stuff up. <br />
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They used go on and on about the female mud wresting so much that <a href="http://www.myspace.com/phrancmyspace">Phranc</a>, former member of <strong>Catholic Discipline </strong>and All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger, once wrote a song about <em>Eye On L.A</em>. called &ldquo;Female Mud Wresting.&rdquo; I always remember the line in the song, &ldquo;Not like Steve and Melody, I do not like female mud wrestling.&rdquo; The Steve that she referenced in the song is none other than <strong>Steve Edwards,</strong> who is still in the &ldquo;light news&rdquo; game on Fox&rsquo;s <em>Good Day L.A. </em>Now Phranc has her own Internet show called <strong><em>Phranc Talk</em></strong>. It&rsquo;s sort of like a <em>Mr. Rogers</em> show, only if an All-American Lesbian Folksinger did it. Maybe she could have Steve Edwards on her show one day. In this episode, she shares her song-writing skills and her bird named Pickles.<br />
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/los-angeles-me/eye-on-l-a-and-its-lasting-impressions.htmlAmoeba Hollywood's Latin Rock & Pop Top 10 For July<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><strong>Amoeba Hollywood's Latin Rock &amp; Pop Top 10 For July<br />
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:47:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/los-angeles-me/amoeba-hollywood-s-latin-rock-pop-top-10-for-july.htmlAMOEBAPALOOZA 2009 @ MEZZANINE, SF WAS FUN FUN FUN<img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Shelby.jpg" title="Josh Pollock + Kaitlin Layher of the $helbyvile Shelbyvilllains (in White Stripes mode) killing it at Amoebapalooza " style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="" /><br />
The only regret I&nbsp;had after Sunday night's amazing <strong>Amoebapalooza</strong> at the <a href="http://www.mezzaninesf.com/calendar.asp">Mezzanine</a> in SF was that I hadn't managed to attend any of the previous years Amoebapaloozas. Amoebapalooza is what we call the yearly concert event in which Amoebites (Amoeba staffers) get up on stage and perform their music, some with officially formed bands and others with groups that form primarily for this anticipated annual event.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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Amoebapalooza North '09, which combined Amoebites from both the SF and Berkeley stores, offered amazing musicianship from a richly diverse array of artists who not only killed it on stage but did so in tightly paced, abbreviated sets, and with the quickest set changes between bands that I&nbsp;have ever witnessed. <br />
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Be sure to keep an eye on the Amoeba website, including the Amoeblog, and also the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24441667@N07/">Amoeba Flickr site</a>, over the next several days for more reviews and photos of Sunday night's event. Everyone who attended this year's blast was clearly having a really good time! &quot;This year by bringing the two stores together we stepped up our game and it really paid off,&quot; commented Amoeba marketing/promotions point person <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2007/11/all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sing/the-employee-interview-xii.html" target="_blank">Naomi</a>, </strong>who was instrumental in putting on Amoebapalooza, scheduling it at the wonderful downtown San&nbsp;Francisco nightclub. &quot;Having it this year at an excellent venue like Mezzanine, with its top notch sound system really helped showcase the talent that we have at Amoeba,&quot; she noted.<br />
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:45:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/amoebapalooza-2009-mezzanine-sf-was-fun-fun-fun.html(In which Job enjoys a field trip.)<div style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="375" alt="goth" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/la_23_bg_052204.jpg" /></div>
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Yesterday, the boyfriend decided to surprise me with a spontaneous field trip to <a href="http://www.mjt.org/"><strong>The Museum of Jurassic Technology</strong></a>, located in Culver City. It was my first time there, even though I&rsquo;d been pining to attend for over four years, and it was not a disappointment.<br />
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It&rsquo;s hard to explain how lovable the Museum is to people who&rsquo;ve never been, because one doesn&rsquo;t want to spoil its mystique and novelty, and explaining its merit to those who <em>have</em> experienced it is hardly necessary, assuming, as I do, that everyone is charmed by it. (I suppose there could be some whimsy-less, emotional cripples who wouldn&rsquo;t appreciate it, but I&rsquo;d like to think they have no interest in either my blog or my company. <em>Humph!</em>)<br />
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If your idea of a dream house is <strong>The Haunted Mansion</strong> at Disneyland...<br />
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...if your idea of a fashion magazine is <strong><em>The Delineator</em></strong>...<br />
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...or if your shopping choice for bric-a-brac is <a href="http://www.necromance.com/index.php?resolution=800"><strong>Necromance</strong></a> on Melrose, then The Museum of Jurassic Technology is your idea of fun day out.<br />
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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:37:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-job-enjoys-a-field-trip-.htmlNew 12" Electronic Releases at Amoeba Hollywood - 08/07/09<div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/techno0803.jpeg" /><br />
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<u><strong>New Electro/Techno 12&quot;s Coming This Weekend:<br />
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Prepare your speakers for this monster. It's rave meets fidget meets gnarly electro grit, like tetris in a blender. JOKERS OF THE SCENE drop their own synth driven remix, and the frenchy guitar laden &quot;HEARTBEATS&quot; finishes off the record. Play it loud! Hot one off MYLO's label 2112.<br />
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<em>AUDACITY PT.1 </em>12&quot; <br />
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Indie electro kingpins SMD return with a new single featuring vocals from CHRIS KEATING of YEASAYER. This two tracker features the &quot;SMD SPACE CAVE VERSION&quot; and the &quot;NAUM GABO REMIX.&quot; Smashing soundclashs and manic synths are the order of the day!<br />
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<div><strong>Junkie XL&nbsp;</strong><em>COSMIC RAVE EP </em>12&quot; COSMICRAVE001&nbsp;</div>
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<strong> N* Grandjean&nbsp;</strong><em>WAKE UP EP</em> 12&quot; ZZZUS120036&nbsp;</div>
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Parker&nbsp;</strong><em>ARTIST SERIES 9</em> 12&quot; GG17&nbsp;</div>
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Bangers R Mashed&nbsp;</strong><em>PLATE 7 </em>12&quot; BANG08 &nbsp;</div>
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Deadstock 33's&nbsp;</strong><em>DRIFTING ON A WAVE</em> 12&quot; ISIT007&nbsp;</div>
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Dr. Strafe&nbsp;</strong><em>VICE CITY</em> 12&quot; FSR071&nbsp;</div>
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Glass Candy&nbsp;</strong><em>GETO BOYS</em> 12&rdquo; IDIB007 &nbsp;</div>
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Invaders, The&nbsp;</strong><em>SPACING OUT</em> 7&quot; JM069 &nbsp;</div>
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Marvin Gaye&nbsp;</strong><em>EDDIE SCISSORS EDITS</em> 12&quot; ES1202&nbsp;</div>
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Normal, The&nbsp;</strong><em>TVOD &amp; WARM LEATHERETTE </em>7&quot; MUTE1&nbsp;</div>
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Various&nbsp;</strong><em>PRODUCER 2 PART 3</em> 7&quot; FC706<br />
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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/handsome-club-amoeba-hollywood-s-electro-news/new-12-electronic-releases-at-amoeba-hollywood-08-07-09.htmlDogs & Cats<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/1 a dog.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="168" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="168" align="left" style="border: 2px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/1 a dog.jpg" alt="gilbert becaud la voix de son maitre label" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/2 dog house.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="170" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="168" style="border: 2px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/2 dog house.jpg" alt="the patriots feel the heat (khadafy) dog house productions record label" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/3 rca victor lable.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="176" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="168" style="border: 2px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/3 rca victor lable.jpg" alt="charade soundtrack rca victor record label" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/4 fat cat cat fat.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="173" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" align="left" alt="" style="border: 2px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/4 fat cat cat fat.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/5 liger.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="171" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" alt="pavement brighten the corners record label" style="border: 2px solid black;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/5 liger.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/6 dancing cat.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="170" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="velveteen rabbit dancing cat record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/6 dancing cat.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/7 boots.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="170" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="173" align="left" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="boots and his buddies tax record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/7 boots.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/8 amos.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="173" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="173" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="amos garret gone cat record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/8 amos.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/9 dog sound.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="171" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="173" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="nelson kole 'n kompany dox sound record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/9 dog sound.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/10 king leo series.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="170" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" align="left" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="leo the lion record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/10 king leo series.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/11 lion.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="173" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="van morrison astral weeks live lion record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/11 lion.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/12 lamb and lion.jpg" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="the boones first class lamb &amp; lion record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/12 lamb and lion.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/13 gitano.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="171" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" align="left" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="santana amigos record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/13 gitano.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/14 quinn.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="174" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="paul quinn swampland record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/14 quinn.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/15 not my type.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="169" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="170" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="lounge cat not my type " src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/15 not my type.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/16 prince charlie.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="170" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" align="left" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="prince charlie and his royal cats elite record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/16 prince charlie.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/17 paris.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="173" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="paris record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/17 paris.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/18 a bull dog.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="171" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="171" style="border: 2px solid black;" alt="live dylan with the band bulldog record label" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Chad_2/dogs &amp; cats/18 a bull dog.jpg" /></a><br />
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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/the-gone-world/dogs-cats.html2009 US DMC Finals: 1) DJ Shiftee 2) Mista B 3) DJ Shmeeze<div style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>2009 DMC&nbsp;US&nbsp;FINALS:&nbsp;SANTOS&nbsp;HOUSE,&nbsp;NYC AUGUST 1st <br />
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1st - <strong>DJ Shiftee</strong><br />
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2nd - <strong>Mista-B</strong><br />
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3rd - <strong>DJ Shmeeze</strong><br />
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Yesterday's<strong> DMC 2009&nbsp;US Finals</strong> at <strong>Santos House</strong> in New York CIty was a great experience for me. The winner was <strong>DJ&nbsp;Shiftee</strong> from New York; second place was San&nbsp;Francisco DJ <strong>Mista&nbsp;B</strong>; and third place was <strong>DJ&nbsp;Shmeeze</strong> from Fountain&nbsp;Valley in Southern California. <br />
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But I&nbsp;must say, beyond these three official winners, all of the DJ's that participated yesterday were winners as far as I am concerned. I really enjoyed everyone's routines.&nbsp;And despite the hiccups that happened such as humming coming out of the sound system, or simply a DJ's needle skipping, the event was a big success. I may have arrived at the battle a little late because of traffic congestion on the wack ass New Jersey Turnpike, but I&nbsp;still got there in time to witness the turntablist heaven that was this year's DMC finals.<br />
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And once again <strong>DJ Red Alert</strong> hosted the battle and <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> was providing the tunes. It was my first time hearing Lord Finesse on the turns, and he did a pretty damn good job keeping the crowd alive during one of the breaks during the competition.&nbsp; Red Alert kept the crowd laughing and hyped up just a bit throughout the night. I wonder what's in the &quot;Poo Poo&quot; juice he kept on drinking all night? The crowd turnout was pretty good, as I saw a lot of people from the next generation of Hip Hop heads. There were a few youngsters in their early teens in attendance as well. <br />
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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:23:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/jamoeblog/2009-us-dmc-finals-1-dj-shiftee-2-mista-b-3-dj-shmeeze.htmlTechno-Realism Killed the Videogame Star: TRON LegacyDisney premiered a <a href="http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx" target="_blank">concept trailer for <em>TRON Legacy</em></a> at the San Diego Comicon (click the link for high-def version). <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/07/writings-from-the-holy-texan/technophilia-the-trailer-hitch-of-realism.html" target="_blank">Further evidence</a> of the destructive effect techno-realism has had on the design of fantasy:<br />
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I found the little bit of dialog telling: The fallen player yells out, &quot;You won, okay? This is just a game!&quot; To which Quinn (<em>TRON</em>'s hero) replies, &quot;Not anymore.&quot; Indeed, the game within the movie has started to look more like quotidian reality rather than the beautiful design of the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2008/10/writings-from-the-holy-texan/the-tron-aesthetic.html" target="_blank">original fantasy</a>.<br />
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First, compare the new light cycle crash:<br />
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to the old one:<br />
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And look how boring a dangling guy is now:<br />
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compared to back then:<br />
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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:42:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/writings-from-the-holy-texan/techno-realism-killed-the-videogame-star-tron-legacy.htmlhouse vinyl blow out @ Amoeba Hollywood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<div style="text-align: center; ">&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/left.jpg" /><img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/midllle.jpg" /><img alt="" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/right.jpg" /><br />
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<font size="+1">August 8 Gremlins (1984)</font><br />25th Anniversary! Don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight.<br />
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<font size="+1">The Evil Dead (1981)</font> 7:30pm<br />
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:39:06 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/08/video-maniacs/the-dungeonmaster-tonight-at-the-new-beverly.htmlINTERVIEW WITH O.B. FROM ALL CITY IN DUBLIN IRELAND<div style="text-align: center;">
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All City&nbsp;Jam - Dublin, 2009 c/o <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Gwame">Gwame</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Amoeblog:</strong> How did the concept for your store come about and what is the history of it, for those who may know nothing of <strong>All City </strong>here in the heart of Dublin, Ireland's capital?<br />
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<strong>O.B:</strong> It just stems from the four elements thing really. It may seem a little dated, played out or even irrelevant to some now -- and perhaps it is -- but there was a time when hip-hop was more than rap, it was a cultural thing and the ethos of hip hop is still very important to us here. Ireland is a small country and we're kind of behind the times! So I guess we are still living in the 80s and what with the recession and doom and gloom, plus the revival of 80s electro, boogie, funk, not to mention fashion sense, it certainly seems like the 80s are back!!<br />
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<strong>Amoeblog: </strong>Having hip-hop records/CDs + graffiti supplies in the same place is the perfect match -- yet there are no others in Ireland who do it, correct? Are there other stores like yours overseas that you know of?<br />
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<strong>O.B: </strong>Right, well we cover Ireland. Like I say, it's a small country. It's not easy for us to stay afloat, so in all reality there wouldn't be much room for competition. Anyone who sets up a record shop now is insane. Overseas there is a great place in LA -- <strong><a href="http://www.33third.com/33third_Los_Angeles/">33Third</a>, </strong>which is a carbon copy of us (though we have been around longer!!). Me and <strong>Splyce</strong> [All City co-owner] were there in 2006 -- it was quite surreal walking into the place. We got a wierd deja vu vibe.<br />
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<strong>Amoeblog:</strong> I would imagine that specializing in vinyl with music and art supplies -- both of which can't be digitally duplicated for free -- must have ensured your longevity as a business. Has it?<br />
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<strong>O.B: </strong>Mmm, it's tough to say. We started out in a pre broadband world. Don't forget, this downloading business is hella new! Taken in context it is a millisecond -- under a decade. If you take that in a historical context, 10 years is nothing, so no one knows how this will pan out. The internet is like the Wild West at the moment but I have no doubt that that will be curtailed. One thing it has hit is CDs -- mixtapes and such -- and magazines, which kids now just don't see the point of buying. In under 5 years we have gone from selling tons of mags and mix CDs to almost none. If you talk to distributors they will tell you that is the same everywhere.<br />
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